Bolton Reflections

by Ray Jefferson

Bolton has long been an important town in Lancashire. It was a centre for wool and cotton weaving in the Middle Ages and during the Industrial Revolution became a leading textile producer worldwide. The town grew rapidly in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and its population experienced both prosperity and privation, but the era left a legacy of grand civic buildings and cotton mills. As the cotton industry has declined in the twentieth...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1398105287
• ISBN13: 9781398105287
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Length: 96 Pages