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Mrs Abbey
Memory Lane 1988

Ismail Musa Ahmad
My Young Life

Thomas Ainsworth
Without the Glory

Phil Almond
Gib during the War
Halliwell and Smithills
Norden and Crossleys

Alf Ashworth
Bradshaw and Harwood Home Guard and Booth's Steel Works
Burnden Park Disaster 1946
John Ashworth at the Battle of the Somme

Betty Astle
The Women's Timber Corps

Astley Bridge Reminiscence Group
The Day War Broke Out My Missus Said To Me...

Tommy and Rita Banks
Bolton Wanderers - FA Cup Winners 1958

Trev Barker
A Day to Remember - Bolton Thursday 9th January 1941

Terry Barnes
Years Ago

Roland Bateson
Memories of the Past

Ken Beevers
A Bolton Wanderers 1958 Team Reunion
Black Cat Café
Bolton's Ghost Advertisements
Pretoria Pit Disaster 1910
The Entwisle Family - A Story of Service and Bravery

David Belfield
Aftermath of War - Berlin 1946

Dick Berry
Co-op Dairies
My Story

Dick and Mary Berry
Our Mam

Vera Berry
Billy Berry - Farnworth Town Councillor and Amateur Entertainer
Dick Whittington at Century Mill
Every Little Girl's Dream
Growing up in Dixon Green
Little Vera Berry
My Memories of Farnworth Wakes
Plodder Lane County Primary School c.1953-54
Plodder Lane School 1951/52

Fred Boardman
Mending Clogs

Edith Booth
Life under the Poor Law

Steve Bridges
Autobiography

M Briggs
Goodbye Burnden Park

R Brooks
First Taste of Dust

Tom Brown
Life in the Royal Navy

Kath Burke
Life during the War

Alan Burrows
A short tribute to Ernest Brooks from his grandson
Francis Street Church Hall
Memories of Farnworth: The Rag and Bone Men
Memories of Farnworth Wakes
Memories of Francis Street Congregational Church, Farnworth
Remember, Remember the Fifth of November

Norman Catherall
A Lucky Escape

Billy Charnock
Billy Charnock's Story

Arthur Clough
A walk down Piggott Street and Buckley Lane in the late 1920's

Eva Clough
My Recollections of St James's School (1922-29)
Wartime Memories - St James Farnworth Ladies Fellowship

Ann Coleman
Wartime Memories - St James Farnworth Ladies Fellowship

Christine Crumblehulme
The Story of Crumblehulme's Iron Works

Renee Davies
My Family during the World Wars

Geoff Dean
Farming in Ladybridge

Peter T Dean
The Journal of Peter T Dean

Margaret Devitt
Edith the Fire Engine

David Dixon
St Marks C of E School

Jack Dixon
Rudolf Hess and National Service

Jack Eckersley
A Jubilee Journey Back in Time
Son of a Regular Serviceman

Bill Edwards
Early Working Life

Hilda Edwards
Wartime Memories - St James Farnworth Ladies Fellowship

Margaret Edwards
Recollections

William Edwards
The Good Old Days

Brian Farris
Cottontown Biography

Vic and Sally Faulkner
Vic Faulkner - Professional Wrestler

Steve Fielding
Bolton's Killer in the Fog

Sheila Flavahan
My Photo Album
Roman Catholic Church Procession c 1920s
St Mary's RC Church and School, Higher Bridge Street

John Foden
The Ashpits of Bolton and the Nightsoil Men

Ernest Ford
Robert Shaw

Rachael Foster
Foster's Famous Shoes

Bill Flynn
Working Lives

Bill Flynn & Elsie Vining
Farnworth Days
Farnworth Market
Housing in Farnworth 1930

Alan Gregory
Harper Green School

Fred Greenhalgh & Karen W Diggle
Halliwell Road Free Church (Unitarian)

Winnie Grimshaw
Winnie Grimshaw's Story

Annie Grundy (née Rowland)
Life in the Grott

Teresa Hall
Farnworth 1894

Malc Halliwell
Malc Halliwell's Wrestling, Boxing and School Photo Album

Elsie Hargreaves
Elsie Hargreaves - Sixsmith Hill Remembered

Roy and Barbara Hartle
Bolton Wanderers - FA Cup Winners 1958

Julie Hewitt
The History Of Breightmet

Harold Hilton
RAF Bomb Armourer Harold Hilton

Joe Hilton
A Short Story

D Hitchen
Trinity Street Station

Edith Holden
The Entwisle Family - A Story of Service and Bravery

Ernie Holden
Farnworth Paintings
From Dunkirk to Farnworth
Pit Paintings

Phoebe Holden
New Bury 'Village Life'

Frank Holt
Farnworth Tales

Lillian Holstead
Air Raid Experiences

Jean Howarth
Dobson and Barlow Ltd 1900
Mary Hamer - A Pioneer Bolton Motorist
Mary Hamer - Pioneer Climber
Philip Laughton-Bramley MBE

Harold Hunter
The Story of an Ordinary Man

Joan Hyland
Doctor Lucas - Freeman of Farnworth

Dorothy Johnson, Edith Chambers and Icilyn Mairs
Town and Country

Irene Kelly
Memories

Alphonsus Jeremiah Joseph Kett
From Limerick to Bolton

Jacqui Kilcoyne
A Visit to Granny's
What War?

William Knowles
A Cog in the Wheel

George Laks
The Three Lives of George Laks

Trudy Lane
A Life Full of Laughter

J Leutchford
My Days At Derby Street School

Janet Lord
Elsie Hargreaves - Sixsmith Hill Remembered

John Makin
Colloquial Place Names around Bolton

Tom McFarlane
Tom McFarlane - A Night at the Opera
Friends for Life

Olive Miller
Shopping at the Coop in the 1930s in Westhoughton

Brian Mills
Bolton's Ghost Advertisements
Reuben Ward Binks
Rumworth & Hulton Labour Club Committee

Charles Nimrod Mills
Charles Nimrod Mills

Icylin Mairs
My Early Memories
Town and Country

Hazel Morgan
Pub Life - The Jolly Waggoner

Bill Morris
Bill Morris - Flying with the Free French
Yet Another Escape - Burnden Park Disaster 1946

Daphne Morris
The Crocheting Lady

Sarah Morris
Bill Morris - Flying with the Free French

Bill Nelson
The Checkers

Old Boy
White Bank

George Owen
George Owen's Story

Barrie Parker
Bolton Commorative Medallions
Commercial Badges and Tokens
Hospital Badges
Military and War Work Badges
School Badges
Sport and Leisure Badges
Trade Union Badges
Transport Badges and Medallions

Joyce Paterson (nee Bennett)
Wartime at Crossley's

Roy Pearson
The Three Lives of George Laks

George Pilling
Memories of a National Service Airman 2486768 LAC. Pilling. George.

Ronald James Polley
James Polley Surface Manager - Pretoria Pit

Jim Ratcliffe
Stories of Wartime Friendship and Bravery

Avril Raw
Avril Raw - "The original Blackpool Belle"

Barry Reynolds
I Remember

John Rigby
The Beginnings of Wrestling in and Around Bolton

Joan Riley
Kirklees

Terry and Dorothy Riley
Chequerbent Days

Auriol Robertson
My Gran

Jim Sant
About Daubhill
An Account of the Pretoria Pit Disaster 1910

Fred Saunders
Fred Saunders in the Merchant Navy

Sister Dominic Savio [Dr E. Hamer]
The Whittam Family of Farnworth

Les Scoble
Les Scoble - Bolton Borough Police Mounted Section
Police Badges

Cleveland Simms
Down on a Jamaican Farm

Joan Sinding
Bolton Technical College 1953

Dorothy Skelhorn (née Philips)
Diamonds In Clogs

Margaret Sowerbutts
My Life Put To Poem

Lorrie Speranza
Doctor Lucas - Freeman of Farnworth
Lorraine Glenys Dewhurst
Raymond Dewhurst and St Thomas's School 1929

Cliff Stockton
Bolton Commorative Medallions
Commercial Badges and Tokens
Hospital Badges
Military and War Work Badges
School Badges
Sport and Leisure Badges
Trade Union Badges
Transport Badges and Medallions

Hilda Taylor
Burnden Park Disaster 1946
Photos and Memories

Jackie Taylor
Betty Whipp - The Oldest Woman in Farnworth
Mary Ann Harrison's Swing Boats
Reuben Ward Binks

J Thomason
Bygone Days

Bernadette Tither
James Hall - A First World War Diary

Derek Tomlin
Remembering Brackley Street

'Tonge Moor Lad'
The One and Only Tonge Moor Bomb

John Topping
John Topping's Story

Margaret Topliss (née Aspinall)
Down the Pocket

Joyce Turner
The Entwisle Family - A Story of Service and Bravery

Elsie Vining
Wartime Memories - St James Farnworth Ladies Fellowship

Matthew Walker
Eaton's Farnworth Brass Band

Catherine Walton
The Story of a Half Timer

Wilson, Jim
Thomas Wilson Jnr - HMS Undaunted
Thomas Wilson Snr's World Cruise

Sydney Lucius Wint
My Story

Kenneth Wood
Herbert Fletcher of Bolton 1842-1895

Sally Wordsworth
New Bury as seen by me 1918-1990