Life in Bolton

Learn about the lives of people who live in our great town, with personal stories to show what it was like to live in Bolton during the industrial revolution - and what it is like to live in the town today.

Explore and understand how medicine and healthcare has helped to improve life for Boltonians, discover favourite sports and pastimes, how Bolton has suffered through conflict and wars, transport links and holidays abroad and how life for children in Bolton has changed over the last 100 years.

Highlights include -

• A turnstile from the Burnden Park football ground where Bolton Wanderers used to play
• A gallery showing a changing display of photographs taken in Bolton in the late 1930s as part of the national Mass Observation project.
• Listening posts where you can hear Bolton people talk about life in the town in the 1920s and 1930s.
• The first car licence plate ever issued in Bolton.