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February 20, 2024
It was a sight which was all too common in Bolton in the Eighties. A once great industrial powerhouse being reduced to rubble
December 16, 2022
UP AT Butterknowle, it was baltic but beautiful. We’d travelled from the low lands, where a thick blanket of freezing fog was trying to snuff out…
December 16, 2022
UP AT Butterknowle, it was baltic but beautiful. We’d travelled from the low lands, where a thick blanket of freezing fog was trying to snuff out…
June 3, 2021
LOOKING BACK Fred Dibnah. Fred lights the fire as he prepares to topple the Ocean Mill chimney around Settle Street, Bolton, October 3, 1982. ONE of Bolton’s great characters Fred Dibnah pictured hard at work in 1982. Steeplejack Fred had been brought in to demolish the chimney belonging to the Ocean Mill on Settle Street, Great Lever. The mill had closed in 1960. Using his tried and trusted method, Fred removed some of the bricks from the base of the chimney at the former cotton spinni...