Archives images 04

Town Hall 10: Reception guests including Rev Wilcockson and wife
Town Hall 11: Council Chamber with Mayor and Mayoress and Rev Wilcockson and Wife
Townleys, Minerva Rd 1: Entrance to Townleys with women talking
Tram Laying 1: Tramlines being laid at junction
Tram 1: Tram at junction of Longcauseway and Albert Rd
Tram 2: Bolton Corporation Tram with Black Horse Inn to rear
Tram 3: Tram at the Black Horse. Shows Smith and Son Clothing Supply
Tram 4: Tram at Moses Gate Public House
Tram 5: Tram outisede Bird I'th Hand Inn
Tram 6: Farnworth Council Tram with open top deck
Tram 7: First tram car arrival at Walkden.
Trentham Gardens 1: Trentham Gardens - Houses and Path
Unemployment Centre 1: Dinner for Children of Unemployed
Homecoming 1: Women and children waving. Street decorated with flags.
Victoria Street 1: Street with factory chimney in background
Victoria Wesley Mission Hall 1: Mission Hall - Exterior View
Wakes 1: Fairground at night with Ferris wheel
Walking March 1: Men lined up and wearing numbers as part of Baths opening. Spire in background.
War Memorial 1: Souvenir of Unveiling and Dedication
War Memorial 2: Park entrance with memorial and bandstand in background
War Memorial 3: Memorial at night with wreaths at base
Barnes Mill 1: Five members of staff
Horrockes and Crowdsons 1: Overlookers in yard
Barnes Mill 2: Three women weavers with reels
Barnes Mill 3: Two women weavers with ring spinning frames
Horrockes and Crowdsons 2: Group of half-timers outside shed
Welsby Square 1: Father and son at centre. Laundry hanging up.
Whit Walks 1: Barnes Band with St Gregory's School. Shows St Patrick banner and advertisements.
Whit Walks 2: St Gregory's on Market St. Shows banner bearers.
Whit Walks 3: Cross and Banner on Higher Market Street
Whit Walks 4: St Gregory's on Market St with banner. Shows Travellers Rest Hotel
Whit Walks 5: Ringley Parish Church. Banner and girls with flowers.
Whit Walks 6: Procession of Dixon Green Cong. Church on Albert Road.
Whit Walks 7: St Gregory's on Lower Market Street with banner. Shows Rose and Crown and Garage
Whit Walks 8: Civic Officials singing in Farnworth Park. Band in background.
Whit Walks 9: Dixon Green - Girls with flowers
Whit Walks 10: Children from St George's Church in Farnworth Park
Whit Walks 11: Dixon Green. Procession in Brackley. Women and Girls passing pub.
Whit Walks 12: Group in Coronation Square with banner
Whit Walks 13: Little Lever Salvation Army
Whit Walks 14: St Matthews Church. Rose Queen procession.
Whit Walks 15: Little Lever Methodists carrying banner.
Whit Walks 16: Kearsley Mount Methodists. Three girls with banner behind.
Whit Walks 17: Ringley Parish Church. Ladies and flower girls.
Whit Walks 18: Children of Prestolee Church
Whit Walks 19: St Peters Rose Queen
John Wilcockson 1: Charter Mayor of Farnworth
Wilfred Geere Old People's Home 1: Exterior View
Footbridge at Great Lever 1: Bridge with girls in foreground. People on bridge.
Worsley Road 1: Bungalow collapsing into pit shaft
Wrestling 1: Wrestling match at Kearsley Moss
York Street 1: View from Russell St. Boy with football and vehicles.
Kearsley Power Station 1: Aerial view showing five cooling towers
Antelope Stables, Kearsley 2: Two horses and traps with male passengers
Bolton Road, Kearsley 1: Bolton Road with pedestrians and horse and cart
Bolton Road, Kearsley 2: Bolton Road with pedestrians and service station
Manchester Road, Kearsley 1: Manchester Road showing J. Holden Mill Chimney and St Stephens Church
Kearsley Main Road 1: Site of roundabout showing shops boarded up for demolition
Bolton Rd Junction 1: Site of motorway island
Kearsley Bowling Team 1: Veterans at Kearsley Park with trophy
Kearsley Bowling Team 2: Veterans Outing
TV Team at Kearsley 1: Cemetery Rd Residents being filmed for Granada TV "Newsday"
Croal Irwell Confluence 1: Shows man sitting on river bank
Cromptons Paper Mill 1: View of mill, wall and river
Fletchers Paper Mill Bowling Club 1: Team with trophy
Fletchers Folly 1: Tall Tower
Fletchers Folly 2: Fletchers Stone on Kearsley Moss
George Tomlinson School 1: Pupils performing "Accent on Youth"
Grosvenor St. Nursery 1: Opening Ceremony
Grosvenor St. Nursery 2: Opening Ceremony. Man opening door watched by group.
Harrison Blair's Chemical Works 1: View of railway bridge and river
Kearsley Mill 1: Showing Irwell and Prestolee Church
Kearsley Roundabout 1: Demolition in progress.
Church Road Bridge 1: Showing Clammerclough
Kearsley Roundabout 2: Shows Bolton Road - Lord St. Junction
St Peters Way 1: Under construction. Crane.
New Jerusalem 1: Temporary hut in foreground
Kearsley Streets 1: Cole St, Lomax St and Birtle Fold with horse and cart
Springfield Road Garage 1: Shows two men looking in car bonnet
Kearsley Power Station 2: View from Station Rd over Stoneclough Rd, Railway and Power Station
Kearsley Unity Filling Station and Co-op: Self Service Garage with car
Prestolee Church 1: Exterior View
Prestolee Farm 1: Housing
Prestolee School 1: Playground equipment built by children
VE Day 1: Street Party in Hazel Avenue. Dog on far left.
St Stephen's School 1: New School behind railings
St Stephen's School 2: Old Church School on Bent Spur Road
St Stephens Church 1: Exterior close up view
Church Army Mission Hall 1: Exterior view
Allenby Grove Scout Troup 1: Members and leaders
Carnival 1: Carnival procession for peace celebrations. Floats and parade on Church St
Carnival 2: Carnival procession for peace celebrations. Horse drawn float with men identified on back.
Carnival 3: Carnival procession passing along Church St. Sailor boys and windmill.
Carnival 4: Carnival procession passing along Church St. Women on float.
Carnival 5: Carnival procession passing along Church St. Women walking.
Carnival 6: Carnival procession passing along Church St. Boys and girls walking.
Cattle Market: Dealer leading cow.
Central Drive School 1: (now WH County Primary) Class Photograph
Chequerbent Football Club: Team with ball - Midgets 1922 - 23
Congregational Church School 1: Class photograph with headmaster, Mr Smith.
Conservative Club : fetes 1: Garden party at conservative club. Golfers in foreground.
Coop's Shop 1: Miss Coops outside shop
Co-operative Store : Employees 1: Co-op Store Employees
Corn Mill 1: Corn Mill at Daisy Hill - Exterior view with mill pond
Council Offices: Council offices on Market St - Exterior
Daisy Hill Choir: Daisy Hill Choir members
Daisy Hill Co-operative Store 1: Pelaw Boot Polishes with children outside
Daisy Hill Football Club 1: Team holding trophies and medals.
Daisy Hill Station 1: Construction of Station and Road Bridge. Horse drawn engine and workers.
Davies, Rhys John MP 1: Signed portrait photograph of Rhys Davies, MP 1921 - 1951
Dickinson Lane Temperance Football Club 1: Team with ball.
Eatock Pit 1: colliery buildings with engine and wagons.
Eatock Pit Farm 1: Exterior of thatched cottage.
Four Lane Ends 1: "Little Wooden Huts" - Sweet shop and South Lancs Tram Waiting Room
Hall Lee Bank Park : Views 1: View of footpath showing shrubbery and flower beds.
Hall Lee Bank Park : Views 2: Wooden footbridge.
Hall Lee Bank Park : Views 3: Old bridge and waterfalls.
Hart Common Football Club 1: Team with ball. 1923 - 1924.
Hibbert, Walter and Mary 1: Walter Hibbert and sister Mary with prize winning carriage
Keawyed Tradition 1: Re-enactment involving cow's head stuck in gate.
Lancs and Cheshire Colliery Deputies Association Committee 1: 21st anniversary
Milk Delivery 1: Horse drawn milk delivery cart driven by Mary and Henry Holden
Pretoria Pit Disaster HC1: Relatives waiting for news at Pithead.
Pretoria Pit Disaster HC2: All-night watchers at the colliery in the early morning
Pretoria Pit Disaster HC3: A crowd of men at the pithead
Pretoria Pit Disaster HC4: Terrible colliery accident. Feared loss of 350 lives. - View of Pithead and Heads of Miners
Pretoria Pit Disaster HC5: View of Pithead after the disaster.
Pretoria Pit Disaster HC6: View of Pithead and outbuildings with a crowd of onlookers on the left.
Pretoria Pit Disaster HC7: Mortuary workers at the disaster standing in front of buildings.
Pretoria Pit Disaster HC8ii: H.M. Inspectors of mines at the Pretoria Pit L - R Samuel Pope, John Gerrard, Robert Nelson
Pretoria Pit Disaster HC9: Howe Bridge Rescue Station Workers
Pretoria Pit Disaster HC10i: The only survivors of the Pretoria Pit Disaster - includes amount collected for relief fund
Pretoria Pit Disaster HC11: Collecting for the PP Explosion Mayor of Bolton's Relief Fund
Pretoria Pit Disaster HC12: Council officials stand by the tomb of 13 unidentified men killed in PP Explosion, Westhoughton Cemetery
Pretoria Pit Disaster HC13: Memorial and Grave, Westhoughton Cemetery
Pretoria Pit Disaster HC16: Salford Mining Mills
Pretoria Pit Disaster HC17: Pit headgear with wagons in foreground
Pretoria Pit Disaster HC18: colliery buildings and railway with wagons.
Pretoria Pit Disaster HC19ii: Just before closure in 1934. The explosion took place in the shaft on the left.
Pretoria Pit Disaster HC20: View of colliery and coal wagons.
Pretoria Pit Disaster HC21: View of pithead and outbuilding just prior to closure in 1934
Pretoria Pit Disaster HC22: Three men erecting a metal fence at the Pretoria Pit Shaft
Pretoria Pit Disaster HC23i: Pretoria Pit Shaft
Pretoria Pit Disaster HC23ii: Pretoria Pit Shaft
Pretoria Pit Disaster HC24: Dr T. H. Dunne, Librarian, standing on remains of engine house adjacent to site of explosion.
Pretoria Pit Disaster HC25: The great colliery disaster in Lancashire: pumping boiling water from the pit at sunrise.
Pretoria Pit Disaster HC26: The colliery disaster which has cost the lives of over 300 men. Damage done at the pithead by the explosion.
Pretoria Pit Disaster HC27: Miners' daughters: a typical group of very young girls at Chequerbent.
Pretoria Pit Disaster HC28: View of winding apparatus at the Yard Pit and a rescue party trimming their lamps.
Pretoria Pit Disaster HC29: Women waiting at the Pithead for news.
Pretoria Pit Disaster HC30: Groups of bereaved women still waiting this afternoon at the Pithead
Pretoria Pit Disaster HC31: Taking home two rescued miners.
Pretoria Pit Disaster HC32: A rescue party about to descend the Pretoria Pit
Pretoria Pit Disaster HC33: Rescue party with apparatus. Leaving rescue station. Arrival of coffins in Royal Mail van.
Pretoria Pit Disaster HC34: A Salvation Army Service at the Pithead
Pretoria Pit Disaster HC35: A crowd at the pit head waiting for news.
Pretoria Pit Disaster HC36: General view of the collieries with Pretoria marked X Inset Workmen repairing gearing of wrecked shaft.
Pretoria Pit Disaster HC37: Rescuers on their way to the shaft.
Pretoria Pit Disaster HC38: A rescuer equipped for work in the mine.
Pretoria Pit Disaster HC39: Some Chequerbent orphans
Pretoria Pit Disaster HC41: Portrait of Joseph Staveley of Chequerbent the sole survivor.
Pretoria Pit Disaster HC42: The head of the shaft where the explosion took place.
Pretoria Pit Disaster HC43: Waiting for news of the men entombed. Inset Train. Inset Women waiting for news.
Pretoria Pit Disaster HC45: Monument to the victims of the Hulton Colliery Disaster, Westhoughton Cemetery - Memorial Service
Pretoria Pit Disaster HC47: St John's Ambulance Brigade Official with Stretchers at Pretoria Pit
Pretoria Pit Disaster HC48: Rescue team entering the Pretoria Pit
Pretoria Pit Disaster HC51: View of Pretoria Pit
Pretoria Pit Disaster HC52i: Public memorial to the victims of Pretoria Pit - Bartholomew's Church Yard
Pretoria Pit Disaster HC52ii: Pretoria Pit Memorial Monument - St. Bartholomew's Church Yard
Pretoria Pit Disaster HC40: The Lord Mayor of Manchester visiting the disaster scene with Sir William and Lady Hulton
New Rock Farm 1: Farmhouse
New Rock Farm 2: Side view of buildings with St James' bell tower in background
New Rock Farm 3: Derelict barn
New Brook House 1: New Brook House - Front and Gardens
Ox Roasting for Peace 1: Ox Roasting Peace Celebration showing Committee Members
Ox Roasting for Peace 2: Local butchers with ox for roasting
Parish Church Guild Football Club 1: Team photograph outside the Old Vicarage. Partial key included.
Parochial Amateur Operatic Society 1: Production of "The Mikado" Cast identified on back.
Pigeon Fanciers 1: Group from Dobb Brow with their pigeons
Primitive Methodist Church 1: Exterior view of church front and adjoining houses. Man with bike and woman with girl in doorway.
Primitive Methodist Church 2: Children on Field Day
Rigby, T. W. and Son - Charabanc Proprietors 1: Open top charabanc with driver and party of ladies
Roundthorn 1: View of terraced houses in snow with children playing in foreground. Bare tree in centre.
Scot Lane 1: Wrought iron workers with anvil
St Bartholomew's Parish Church 1 : Choir: Choir outside church
St Bartholomew's Parish Church 2 : Rose Queens: Group of eight Rose Queen Attendants
St Bartholomew's Parish Church 3 : Views: Exterior view of original church 1731 - 1870
St Bartholomew's Parish Church 4 : Views: Exterior view of church and three portrait photographs of Rev Garrett, Canon Jacques and Canon Cronshaw
St Bartholomew's Parish Church 5 : Guild Football Club: Team members with Rev. Henry S. Garrett, ball, medals and trophy
St Bartholomew's Parish Church 6 : Vicarage: Front of vicarage with lawn
St John's Ambulance 1: Local dignitaries and crowds inspect the first horse drawn ambulance
St John's Ambulance 2: Brigade members
St John's Ambulance 3: Brigade members and horse drawn float at Westhoughton Gala
St John's Ambulance 4: Ladies in uniform
St Thomas C of E Primary School: Class Photograph with teacher, Mr Fisher
Stag and Griffin Public House 1: Pub and Bowling Green Hut
Stott's Pit 1: North East view of pit
Stott's Pit 2: North West view of pit with burning slag heap to rear
Strike Relief Committee 1: Strike Relief Committee with key on reverse
Sunny Bank 1: Birthplace of the Rev. Peter Hampson Ditchfield
Taylor and Hartley Football Club 1: Team Photograph 1916 - 1917 Season with manager, Mr Newsham
Town Hall 1: Artist's impression of Town Hall and Carnegie Library
Town Hall 2: Laying the foundation stone for the town hall
Town Hall 3: Front external view of town hall under construction. Men on tower.
Town Hall 4: Front external view of town hall under construction. Men standing on tower.
Trades people 1: Trades people grouped beneath spreading tree
Vale House 1: Exterior view showing corn mill and mill pond
Westhoughton Amateur Football Club 1: Team members pictured with ball, medals and trophies
Westhoughton Central Relief Committee 1: Coal Dispute. Committee members with key attached
Westhoughton Chapel: Exterior view.
Westhoughton Cricket Club: Team photograph with key attached
Westhoughton Golf Club: Founder members of Westhoughton Golf Club
Westhoughton Old Prize Band 1: Band members with instruments
Westhoughton Old Prize Band 2: Band members seated behind drum
Westhoughton Public Brass Band 1: Band members in front of house
Westhoughton Station 1: View of road bridge, station house and line with train passing through
Westhoughton Urban District Council 1: Council members with key attached
White Horse and Chequerbent Carnival 1: Carnival group in fancy dress. Three "witches" in front.
White Horse Day School 1: Class photo with teacher
White Horse Primary School 1: Pupils sitting at desks and teacher
White Lion Public House: Exterior view of proprietors outside pub.
Wigan Road 1: Road surfacing work with steam roller
Wingates Band 1: Band members with trophy
Wingates Band 2: Band members with "double" trophies for winning Belle Vue and CP Contests
Wingates Band 3: Band members seated on flight of steps
Wingates Band 4: Band members with large trophy and shield
Wingates Cycling Club: Cycle Club members at the Inter Club meet
Mirey Lane 1: Snow scene