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Local History images
- Samuel Crompton (1753 – 1827) Bolton Born inventor of the spinning mule
- Samuel Crompton’s was the first public statue to be erected in Bolton. But the unassuming inventor of the spinning mule never earned the recognition he deserved during his lifetime.
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- The Tong Fold Oak Apple day figure
- This unusual statue was once the centrepiece for a drunken celebration at Tong Fold in Bolton. The occasion was Oak Apple Day, once a national commemoration of the Restoration of King Charles II.
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- detail of Oak Apple Figure
- Incendiary bomb damage at Ormrod and Hardcastle’s mill on Parrot Street
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- Thomas Sanderson verger at the Holy Trinity Church, on Trinity Street, Bolton when it was bombed by a zeppellin in 1916
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- Zeppelin bomb damage back Kirk St. Bolton in 1916
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- Light-hearted First World War era postcard about zeppelin raids
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- Detail of bomb damage Back Kirk Street in Bolton
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- Crompton's Spinning Mule
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- Detail of Crompton's Spinning Mule
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- Detail if incendiary bomb damage
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- Clarion Cycling Club pin badge
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- Clarion Cycling Club pin badge
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- Cycle bell from Elizabeth Calderly's bicycle
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- Thomas Calderly's Pocket Ensign camera
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- Bolton Clarion Club pin badge
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- Thomas and Elsie Calderley, members of the Bolton Clarion Cycle Club
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- Thomas and Elsie Calderley, members of Bolton Clarion Cycle Club
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- Thomas and Elsie Calderley and their tandem, members of the Clarion Cycle Club
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- Oil painting: Charles II Entering London by Alfred Barron Clay, 1831-1868
- The "conjuring room" at Hall i' th' Wood
- Samuel Cromptons pocket watch
- Samuel Crompton's violin
- Unveiling of Crompton's statue in Nelson Square
- The cover of Sharples' Museum catalogue
- The back cover of the Sharples' Museum catalogue
- Detail of Sharples' Museum catalogue
- The Star Inn - venue for Bolton's first museum
- Colonel Richard Ainsworth
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- Bolt label G.B. Ollivant Ltd.
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- Bolt stamp
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- The Great Bolton Fire Brigade Extinguisher
- Detail of the Great Bolton Fire Brigade Extinguisher
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- Brass plate on the Bolton Extinguisher
- Detail of the Bolton Extinguisher
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- Samuel Crompton's Spinning Mule
- Bridsons' Bleachworks photographed by Humphrey Jennings
- Cooling Towers
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- Cotton picking
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- Cotton pickers depicted next to a Lancashire Mill in a promotional brochure
- Photograph of slaves cotton picking
- Detail showing slaves cotton picking
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- Two white European children play while a black maid doll looks on
- Detail showing a black maid doll - a childs toy
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- Face of an Abolition of Slavery medal
- Obverse of an Abolition of Slavery medal
- Abolition of Slavery medallion detail
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- Face of a Barbados penny
- Obverse of a Barbados penny
- Barbados penny
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- Detail of Samuel Crompton's Spinning Mule
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- Montage of slavery related imagery
- Montage of slavery related imagery
- The now demolished cooling towers at Ringley power station
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- Detail of a boltstamp
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- Working mans hair specialist - a detail of a photgraph taken by Humphrey Spender for the Mass Observation
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- Image of James Watkins, freed slave and advocate of the anti-slavery movement
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- Rush hour on Folds Road
