WINTER HILL PROTESTS: Getting ready for anniversary when area was at heart of a battle theboltonnews.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theboltonnews.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Professor Paul Salveson is a historian and writer and lives in Bolton. He is visiting professor in ‘Worktown Studies’ at the University of Bolton and author of several books on Lancashire history. Boltonians of a certain age will remember fondly the ‘day trip’ to Blackpool, by train. It has a history stretching back to the middle of the 19th century and was known for generations as ‘th’ chep (cheap) trip’. Allen Clarke, in his novels, poetry and dialect sketches wrote lovingly and realistically about it - an important part of life in Bolton and all of the Lancashire cotton towns.
Remembering the chep ride from Bolton to Blackpool theboltonnews.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theboltonnews.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Professor Paul Salveson is a historian and writer and lives in Bolton. He is visiting professor in ‘Worktown Studies’ at the University of Bolton and author of several books on Lancashire history Lancashire, during and after the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century, was a dirty and polluted place to live. We’ll never know the true toll on people’s lives as a result of atmospheric pollution but it must have been enormous. There was no NHS. If you were ill you had to pay, unless you were lucky enough to be protected by a friendly society or trade union (which of course you had to pay contributions to). Working in mill, mine or factory didn’t just expose you to physical injury from machinery, but more insidiously the long-term risks to health from airborne pollution.
Before the NHS, Bolton could rely on its community doctors thisislancashire.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thisislancashire.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.