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What's happened to Bolton? Is it finally levelling up? Why so many closed shops?
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- čas přidán 17. 04. 2024
- What's happened to Bolton Town in England, UK? Is it finally levelling up, now that it has government funds? Why so many closed shops? Join me for my trip to Bolton, in the old county of Lancashire, in the North West of England. Home of Bolton Wanderers FC, Fred Dibner, Peter Kay, to name but a few!
A former mill town, Bolton has been a centre for textile production since the 14th century when Flemish weavers settled in the area, introducing a wool and cotton-weaving tradition. It was a 19th-century boomtown, development largely coincided with the introduction of textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution. At its peak in 1929, its 216 cotton mills and 26 bleaching and dyeing works made it one of the largest and most productive centres of cotton spinning in the world. The British cotton industry declined sharply after the First World War and, by the 1980s, cotton manufacture had virtually ceased in the town.
The town has a population of 139,403, whilst the wider metropolitan borough has a population of 262,400. Bolton originated as a small settlement in the moorland known as Bolton le Moors. In the English Civil War, the town was a Parliamentarian outpost in a staunchly Royalist region and, as a result, was stormed by 3,000 Royalist troops led by Prince Rupert of the Rhine in 1644. In what became known as the Bolton Massacre, 1,600 residents were killed and 700 were taken prisoner.
Bolton Wanderers football club now play home games at the University of Bolton Stadium in Horwich. Cultural interests include the Octagon Theatre and the Bolton Museum and Art Gallery, as well as one of the earliest public libraries established after the Public Libraries Act 1850.
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I moved to Bolton 40 years ago when I got married, it was a lovely bustling town back then. I remember when I was a kid my mum used to take me to Bolton shopping I loved the town. That's party why I moved here, but now what has happened to our beautiful town centre is tragic. I don't often venture into the town now I find it depressing, but what I can say there are still some really nice rural places within the Bolton boundary's.
I remember Bolton 40 years ago, I also used to go to the shops there as a kid, I remember if you couldn’t find what you wanted in Wigan we would go to Bolton as the shops were better. I remember buying Star Wars figures from the toy shop there which was stacked to the rafters, it’s very sad what’s happened to the town, I don’t know what the future holds for Bolton.
The new build is bleak..no character to it, just like Lego!!
I was born & bred in Bolton I moved to Horwich when I got married & now live in the forest of Bowland
I’m sad to see the decline of a once busy & bustling Town I hardly recognised it 😢
Even the museum isn’t what it was
I spent hours in there as a child in the school holidays
My favourite place was the Egyptology room the one consolation is the Mummy is still there
No Aquarium now??
Apart from visiting my parents in the cemetery I don’t think I’ll be returning anytime soon 😢
I think Horwich and the forest of bowl and are both nice places to live, so that’s good fortune! Yes it’s hard to see Bolton in such a state of decline, I remember it much better decades ago. Also yes there’s still an aquarium but didn’t have time to go this visit, it’s just one room, but I remember it being bigger, to could be missrembering?
For info - Primark is relocating to the Maket Place, & Deichmann & another store are also opening there.
The other shopping mall - Crompton Place - is being demolished, but we don't know what's going to be built in its place yet.
Also a food hall is opening in the market. So things are (very slowly) happening, it's just a question of whether it will work.
That sounds really good, 👍 m so glad things are moving, I also like the new town centre houses, looking good
What happened to Bolton was " Greater Manchester " a pitiful days work from which this proud town never recovered.
Biggest town outside the cities ( Jessica Lofthouse in her Lancashire books 1971) now a pitiful huge shadow and parody of its former self.
Local paper prints a " Looking Back" section every Weds. The comparisons bring a tear to your eyes.
Awful.
Totally agree, it’s a shadow of its former self, been in gradual decline for many decades as I can personally recall!
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Unfortunately we’ve got the wrong idea about levelling up. It means levelling up from the ground down you know like when you’re not going to house are you have a empty ground? Got lots of potential hasn’t it in the future. lol
Makes sense if you think about it 😆
it looks dead on decline
yes, still looks to be in decline sadly :(