Tuesday 24 October 2017

Ten Interesting Pictures from the TLHS Archives

Here are a few interesting documents and photographs that we've found in the TLHS archives while creating a handlist this week.

Gordons of Bolton - 1938 - Ford V-8
Gordons of Bolton - 1938 - Advertisement
New Ford V-8 "30" £280

Bolton Evening News from 11th November 1918 - Armistace Day
Bolton Evening News from 11th November 1918 - Armistace Day

Eagley Mills Clock
Eagley Mills Clock - Joyce movement - taken 1970s

Eagley Mills - Cording Machine
Eagley Mills - Cording Machine - Mill No. 1 - 1970s

Eagley School in the 1970s
Eagley School in the 1970s

Eagley Cricket Club 1904
Eagley Cricket Club 1904

Slater family of Dunscar
Slater family photographs from
Eagley Cricket Club 1907 souvenir booklet

Photographic negatives in TLHS archives
Several boxes and tins of photographic negatives, some on glass,
mostly labelled as local scenes from the 1940s to 1970s.

Hollinshead Hall - To Be Let - 1803
To be let: Hollinshead Hall, Tockholes, in 1803.
Note the reference to
Edmund Haworth of Turton, attorney at law,
who lived at Dunscar

John & Margaret Haslam - birthdays 1776 - 1821
John & Margaret Haslam
Records of birthdays
1776 - 1821