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Secret Bolton
Ray Jefferson
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Description for Secret Bolton
Paperback. Explore Bolton's secret history through a fascinating selection of stories, facts and photographs. Series: Secret. Num Pages: 96 pages, 100. BIC Classification: 1DBKENL; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 165. .
Bolton has its roots in Lancashire where it was established as a textile town from the Middle Ages, but it was during the Industrial Revolution that it grew to become one of the major cotton manufacturing centres of the world. Engineering, paper making, bleaching, and dyeing followed, with thousands employed in the manufacture of textile machinery, steam engines, boilers, other heavy machinery, and tools in addition to the thousands employed in the spinning mills. As that heavy industry and textile manufacturing declined during the twentieth century, other more modern activities took their place and alongside the town’s surviving historic and ... Read more
Bolton has its roots in Lancashire where it was established as a textile town from the Middle Ages, but it was during the Industrial Revolution that it grew to become one of the major cotton manufacturing centres of the world. Engineering, paper making, bleaching, and dyeing followed, with thousands employed in the manufacture of textile machinery, steam engines, boilers, other heavy machinery, and tools in addition to the thousands employed in the spinning mills. As that heavy industry and textile manufacturing declined during the twentieth century, other more modern activities took their place and alongside the town’s surviving historic and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2021
Publisher
Amberley Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
Series
Secret
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Chalford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781445654867
SKU
V9781445654867
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-5
About Ray Jefferson
Ray Jefferson is president of the Bolton Camera Club. Ray used to work for Bolton Borough Council but has since retired and now spends most of his time working with the club and acting as president. He is also a member of the local rotary club and the photographic society, and is well known in the area.
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