Worktown Walks 1: Cotton, Culture and Characters

by Live from Worktown

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	1.	1: Intro and Crompton Way Cinema 03:48
	2.	2: The Castle Hotel 02:01
	3.	3: Crompton Way 00:52
	4.	4: Hall I'th Wood Council Estate 01:58
	5.	5: Hall I'th Wood 02:51
	6.	6: Watermillock 03:00
	7.	7: ACDO Glo-White 02:06
	8.	8: Holden's Mill 01:43
	9.	9: Bank Top United Reform Church 00:51
	10.	10: Bank Top Brewery 01:26
	11.	11: New Eagley Mill and Henry Ashworth 03:12
	12.	12: Eagley Mills in Hough Lane 01:02
	13.	13: The Black Boy, Hough Lane 02:57
	14.	14: The Crescent 01:42
	15.	15: Birtenshaw School 01:57
	16.	16: Birtenshaw Old Hall 01:26
	17.	17: The Oaks 02:07
	18.	18: Canon Slade School 01:14
	19.	19: 32 Bradshaw Brow 01:51
	20.	20: T'Scopie 02:34
	21.	21: Firwood Fold 02:32

about

Cotton, Culture and Characters a guided walk around Eagley and Bradshaw Brooks in Bolton, UK.

Link to the map and directions: (if you download the audio, you automatically get the pdf of the map and directions included in your download folder)

drive.google.com/file/d/1M0QEIjKMhrbVVrVSuB_LCvQ8AtjfYt4W/view?usp=sharing

On this free self-guided walk in north Bolton, you’ll visit sites of early cotton mills, weaving sheds and bleachworks, be introduced to entrepreneurs and workers in the textile industry, but also footballers, singers, Glo-White, a psychoanalyst, fighter pilot, an actor, a DJ, a children’s writer, refugees and rogues.

The walk will take about two hours thirty minutes and is around five miles long.

We recommend downloading the audio on this page to your device before the walk rather than just streaming as, although this can be done, there are sections in valleys where you might struggle for a signal.

Similarly, download or print the map and directions before setting off.

The audio is free (click the Buy Album link above) though it does require an email address so we can keep you up to date about Live from Worktown’s arts and heritage activities in Bolton, though you can unsubscribe at any time. You can, if you wish, make a donation to the group when downloading and any money collected this way will go towards our costs of producing our various arts and heritage projects in the town. This would, of course, be very welcome and much appreciated.

Thank you for joining us on this walk and we really hope that you find it enjoyable and informative.

If you’d like to contact us with any feedback, please write to:
info@livefromworktown.org

credits

released July 17, 2020

Written and researched by Dave Burnham

Read and recorded, photography and design by Brad B. Wood

Trialed and tested by Peter Firth and David Bryce

Included music - Good Times by Peter D. Firth available here:

peterdfirth.bandcamp.com/releases

Live from Worktown CIC - Co No 13586112

Live from Worktown, Third Floor, St George's House, St George’s Rd Bolton, BL1 2EN
info@livefromworktown.org

www.livefromworktown.org

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Live from Worktown Bolton, UK

A Bolton-based Community-led Arts and Heritage Organisation in the North West of England.

www.livefromworktown.org

Live from Worktown CIC - Co No 13586112

Live from Worktown, Third Floor, St George's House, St George’s Rd Bolton, BL1 2EN info@livefromworktown.org ... more