Description
Visitors to the Happy Homes Exhibition at the Drill Hall, Silverwell Street. The exhibition was organised by Bolton Chamber of Trades to promote commerce in Bolton.
The Mass Observation Archive includes a number of accounts written by observers of the exhibition and a brochure listing stalls. Exhibitors included Smith’s Potato Crisps and the Youth Hostel Association as well as local companies. There is also an observation of the entertainment provided by an Italian, Giovanni, whose “violent mismanagement of the English language succeeded in making some first rate cracks.”
The gentleman in the wide cloth cap is Edward Moss (1859-1959). He is one of my great grandfathers. His daughter (coat with fur collar) is in front of him. She is Edith Heyes (1890-1963). Her friend Mrs Pat Greenhalgh (the wife of a Wigan osteopath) is to my Gran’s right. All three were from Wigan and would make a weekly visit to Bolton market.