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Athletics
Arthur Farrimond - Olympic Runner
Foster's Famous Shoes
Sport and Leisure Badges

Archeology
The Dry Hillock Project

Arts
A Lucky Escape
Reuben Ward Binks
Robert Shaw

Ashworth, John
John Ashworth at the Battle of the Somme

Australia
Henry Hopwood's Echuca

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

Banks, Tommy
Bolton Wanderers - FA Cup Winners 1958

Binks, Reuben Ward
Reuben Ward Binks

Brooks, Ernest
A short tribute to Ernest Brooks from his grandson

Catherall, Arthur
A Lucky Escape

Childhood
A Cog in the Wheel
A Life Full of Laughter
A Short Story
A short tribute to Ernest Brooks from his grandson
Autobiography
Cottontown Biography
Dick Whittington at Century Mill
Down the Pocket
George Owen's Story
Growing up in Dixon Green
Lorraine Glenys Dewhurst
Life in the Grott
Life under the Poor Law
Little Vera Berry
Memories
Memories of the Past
Memory Lane 1988
Photos and Memories
Recollections
Remember, Remember the Fifth of November
Son of a Regular Serviceman
The Journal of Peter T Dean
The Story of a Half Timer
The Story of an Ordinary Man
What War?

Churches
Every Little Girl's Dream
Francis Street Church Hall
Halliwell Road Free Church (Unitarian)
Hebron Hall (Plymouth Brethren)
Lorraine Glenys Dewhurst
Memories of Francis Street Congregational Church, Farnworth
Photos and Memories
Roman Catholic Church Procession c 1920s
St James, New Bury - Consecrated 1865
St Mary's RC Church and School, Higher Bridge Street
The Whittam Family of Farnworth

Cotton Queens
Cotton Queens of the 1930s

Crime
Bolton's Killer in the Fog

Crompton, Samuel
Bolton Commorative Medallions

Crompton, Thomas Bonsor
Commorative Medallions

Crumblehulme Family
The Story of Crumblehulme's Iron Works

Dewhurst, Raymond
Raymond Dewhurst and St Thomas's School 1929

Dibnah, Fred
Bolton Steeplejack Fred Dibnah

Entertainment and Leisure
A Life Full of Laughter
Astoria Palais de Danse
Avril Raw - "The original Blackpool Belle"
Billy Berry - Farnworth Town Councillor and Amateur Entertainer
Dick Whittington at Century Mill
Every Little Girl's Dream
Francis Street Church Hall
Little Vera Berry
Mary Ann Harrison's Swing Boats
Remember, Remember the Fifth of November

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

Events
Bolton Revisited Birthday Event
D Day - 60 Years On
VJ Day 60th Anniversary 2005

Factories and Mills
Bradshaw and Harwood Home Guard and Booth's Steel Works
Commercial Badges and Tokens
Cotton Queens of the 1930
Diamonds In Clogs
Dick Whittington at Century Mill
Dobson and Barlow Ltd 1900
Farnworth Paper Mills
Foster's Famous Shoes
Kirklees
Mending Clogs
Military and War Work Badges
Norden and Crossleys
Roberts' Patent Filling Machines Catalogue
The Story of Crumblehulme's Iron Works
Wartime at Crossley's

Farrimond, Arthur
Arthur Farrimond - Olympic Runner

Faulkner, Vic
Vic Faulkner - Professional Wrestler

Farming
Farming in Ladybridge

Fire Service
Edith the Fire Engine
The Entwisle Family - A Story of Service and Bravery

Flavahan Family
My Photo Album

Fletcher, Herbert
Herbert Fletcher of Bolton 1842-1895

Football
A Bolton Wanderers 1958 Team Reunion
Burnden Park Disaster 1946
Bolton Wanderers - FA Cup Winners 1958
Goodbye Burnden Park
Photos and Memories
Sport and Leisure Badges

Foster Family
Foster's Famous Shoes

France, Jane
My Gran

Groups and Societies
Eaton's Farnworth Brass Band
Horwich Morris Dancers
Rumworth & Hulton Labour Club Committee
Westhoughton Old Band

Hall, James
James Hall - A First World War Diary

Hamer, Mary
Mary Hamer - A Pioneer Bolton Motorist
Mary Hamer - Pioneer Climber

Harrison, Mary Ann
Mary Ann Harrison's Swing Boats

Hartle, Roy
Bolton Wanderers - FA Cup Winners 1958

Hopwood, Henry
Henry Hopwood's Echuca

Immigration
Down on a Jamaican Farm
From Limerick to Bolton
I Remember
My Early Memories
My Young Life
My Story
Patrick's Story
The Crocheting Lady
The Three Lives of George Laks
Town and Country

Kelly, Lilian
Memories

Lane Family
A Life Full of Laughter

Laughton-Bramley, Philip
Philip Laughton-Bramley MBE

Libraries
The Entwisle Family - A Story of Service and Bravery

Lucas, Dr Victor St Clair
Doctor Lucas - Freeman of Farnworth

McFarlane, Joseph
Joseph McFarlane MM

McGuffie, Walter
Walter McGuffie - Olympic Wrestler

Medicine and Hospitals
Doctor Lucas - Freeman of Farnworth
Farnworth Infectious Diseases Hospital
Hospital Badges
My Family during the World Wars

Mining
An Account of the Pretoria Pit Disaster 1910
First Taste of Dust
Herbert Fletcher of Bolton 1842-1895
James Polley Surface Manager - Pretoria Pit
Pit Paintings
Pretoria Pit Disaster 1910

Morris, Bill
Bill Morris - Flying with the Free French

National Service
Memories of a National Service Airman 2486768 LAC. Pilling. George.
Rudolf Hess and National Service

Place Names
Colloquial Place Names around Bolton

Poetry
A Visit to Granny's
My Life Put To Poem

Police
Les Scoble - Bolton Borough Police Mounted Section

Polley, James
James Polley Surface Manager - Pretoria Pit

Pretoria Pit Disaster 1910
James Polley Surface Manager - Pretoria Pit

Public Houses
Doffcocker
Halliwell and Smithills
Bolton's Killer in the Fog
Pub Life - The Jolly Waggoner

Royal, Bert
Vic Faulkner - Professional Wrestler

Schools and Colleges
A Cog in the Wheel
Bolton Technical College 1953
Folds Road School
Harper Green School
Life under the Poor Law
Lorraine Glenys Dewhurst
Memories
My Days At Derby Street School
My Recollections of St James's School (1922-29)
Photos and Memories
Plodder Lane County Primary School c.1953-54
Plodder Lane School 1951/52
Raymond Dewhurst and St Thomas's School 1929
School Badges
St Gregory's School, Farnworth
St Marks C of E School
St Mary's RC Church and School, Higher Bridge Street

Shaw, Robert
Robert Shaw

Shops and Markets
Black Cat Café
Bolton Market Hall
Bolton's Ghost Advertisements
Co-op Dairies
Commercial Badges and Tokens
Farnworth Arcade
Farnworth Market
Great & Little Bolton Co-operative Society 1900
Mending Clogs
My Photo Album

Pawn Shops
Shopping at the Coop in the 1930s in Westhoughton

Sport
A Bolton Wanderers 1958 Team Reunion
Arthur Farrimond - Olympic Runner
Burnden Park Disaster 1946
Bolton Wanderers - FA Cup Winners 1958
Foster's Famous Shoes
Farnworth Tales
Goodbye Burnden Park
Malc Halliwell's Wrestling, Boxing and School Photo Album
Mary Hamer - Pioneer Climber
Photos and Memories
The Beginnings of Wrestling in and Around Bolton
Sport and Leisure Badges
Vic Faulkner - Professional Wrestler
Walter McGuffie - Olympic Wrestler

Trade Unions
Trade Union Badges

Transport
Mary Hamer - A Pioneer Bolton Motorist
Photos and Memories
The Checkers
The Good Old Days
Transport Badges and Medallions
Trinity Street Station

Wakes
Mary Ann Harrison's Swing Boats
Memories of Farnworth Wakes
My Memories of Farnworth Wakes

Whipp, Betty
Betty Whipp - The Oldest Woman in Farnworth

Whittam Family
The Whittam Family of Farnworth

Wild, Joe
RAF Bomb Armourer Harold Hilton

Williams Family
Jonathan Williams - from Rhos to Kearsley
Margaret Williams

Wilson, Thomas
Thomas Wilson Jnr - HMS Undaunted

Wilson, Thomas
Thomas Wilson Snr's World Cruise

World War I
James Hall - A First World War Diary
John Ashworth at the Battle of the Somme
Little Lever Remembrance
Military and War Work Badges
My Family during the World Wars
Philip Laughton-Bramley MBE
Thomas Wilson Snr's World Cruise

World War II
A Cog in the Wheel
A Day to Remember - Bolton Thursday 9th January 1941
A Lucky Escape
Aftermath of War - Berlin 1946
Air Raid Experiences
Bill Morris - Flying with the Free French
Charles Nimrod Mills
D Day - 60 Years On
Fred Saunders in the Merchant Navy
Friends for Life
From Dunkirk to Farnworth
Gib during the War
I Remember
John Topping's Story
Joseph McFarlane MM
Life in the Royal Navy
Little Lever Remembrance
Memories
Military and War Work Badges
My Family during the World Wars
My Young Life
Oh What a Lovely War
Philip Laughton-Bramley MBE
RAF Bomb Armourer Harold Hilton
Son of a Regular Serviceman
Stories of Wartime Friendship and Bravery
The Day War Broke Out My Missus Said To Me...
The One and Only Tonge Moor Bomb
The Three Lives of George Laks
The Women's Timber Corps
Thomas Wilson Jnr - HMS Undaunted
Tom McFarlane - A Night at the Opera
VJ Day 60th Anniversary 2005
Wartime at Crossley's
Wartime Memories - St James Farnworth Ladies Fellowship
What War?
Without the Glory

Wrestling
Farnworth Tales
Malc Halliwell's Wrestling, Boxing and School Photo Album
The Beginnings of Wrestling in and Around Bolton
Vic Faulkner - Professional Wrestler
Walter McGuffie - Olympic Wrestler