Showing posts with label The Depression. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Depression. Show all posts
Monday, 1 September 2025

That bye-election and a defeat for the Government, ....... Farnworth January 1938

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Rally for George Tomlinson on the day of the election on Bridgewater Street Here is another from the Bolton series which for various re...
Friday, 29 August 2025

At Burndon Park in the September of 1937 with the Wanderers 4 goals up.

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I have been rediscovering the photographs of Humphrey Spender. During 1937-38 he recorded the lives of working people in Bolton as par...
Thursday, 28 August 2025

Reading the newspaper in Bolton in 1938

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It is odd to think that in some ways the world I grew up in is far closer to that of my parents than the one I have shared with my chi...
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Wednesday, 27 August 2025

In Queens Park Bolton in September 1937 during the National Apprentices’ Strike

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You might be forgiven for passing over the picture of these policemen standing in Queens Park Bolton in the September of 1937. And yet ...
Thursday, 7 November 2024

In Bolton in 1937, before the National Health Service

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Before the NHS, The Working Man's Hair Specialist, Bolton, 1937 Now the National Health Service has always been  controversial.   ...
Wednesday, 6 November 2024

At the factory gates in Bolton in 1937

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Outside the Flash Mill Street compound in 1937 I am back with that wonderful collection of images from Worktown. And today I have bee...
Thursday, 2 November 2023

Bolton in 1937 a unique online exhibition of the pictures of Humphrey Spender

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I first came across the photographs of Humphrey Spender about two decades ago when somebody gave me a collection of his pictures about B...
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Tuesday, 9 December 2014

More from Worktown, Bolton in 1937, a new online exhibition

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I hadn’t planned on going back to Bolton and the Worktown exhibition, but the images of working class life are so compelling that I am d...