Bolton reflections / Ray Jefferson.

Jefferson, Ray, author

Stroud : Amberley Publishing, 2024.

96 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 24 cm

Bolton has long been an important town in Lancashire. It was a centre for wool and cotton weaving in the Middle Ages and during the Industrial Revolution became a leading textile producer worldwide. The town grew rapidly in the 19th and early 20th centuries and its population experienced both prosperity and privation, but the era left a legacy of grand civic buildings and cotton mills. As the cotton industry has declined in the twentieth century, with the last mills closing in the 1980s, modern Bolton has changed. Today's town is greener, with much of its traditional industries replaced by service industries and redeveloped shopping centres and new retail parks. 'Bolton Reflections' features an exciting collection of historic and modern pictures that are individually merged to reveal how the area has changed over the decades.

9781398105287 (pbk)

942.737

English

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