EPW057295 ENGLAND (1938). The Town Hall, Bolton, 1938

Bolton Market

Bullfield Mill Cromwell Street

Deane Road

Gas works and offices

Odeon Cinema

Hippodrome Theatre/Cinema

the old weigh room demolished 2014

South Lancashire Transport trolleybus. The route served Hulton Lane Ends, Atherton and Leigh until 1958.

Market Street

Oxford St

Ashburner Street

The gas works and the gasometers have gone but their memory lingers as this is still called Gas Street

Hanover St

Railway line which heads to the bottom of the image to Bolton Trinity Street Station - now just called Bolton. To the top of the picture it heads for Lostock and Horwich.

This area is a bus station in 2013

Moor Lane

Black Horse Street

Deansgate

Hotel Street

This crescent had no name until 1974, it is now Le Mans Crescent.

Juvenile Detention Building, built at the same time as the crescent building - about the time this image was taken.

Image of crescent at ground level

The centre of the building was a large hall, the Albert Hall, with a large organ, sadly this section of the building was reduced to ashes in 1981.

Plan of original town hall before the extension

This right hand section of the crescent Civic building was for the Police Station and Magistrates Courts.

This section of the crescent building, new when this image was taken, was for the Public Health Department

Cresent building - this section was Library, Museum and Art Gallery