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Children join in a rally for Labour candidate George Tomlinson on Bridgewater Street, on the day of the 1938 Farnworth by-election.
Campaigning Children By Humphrey Spender - January 27th 1938
- Copyright Bolton Council
- Image ref. 1993.83.26.27
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I suspect that the man at the back leaning on a window sill with a dark moustache is my grandfather Arnold Worthington. I know that he campaigned for George Tomlinson in that election because he later complained to us that George Tomlinson had been a traitor to the Labour cause. I suspect he’s holding a cigarette and that is a very distinctive way in which my grandfather held a cigarette. He was born in 1902, always lived in Farnsworth, and had a roofing business A Worthington and Son (previously E & A Worthington).