Bolton in 50 Buildings

by Jeff Layer and Ray Jefferson

Bolton has a proud and distinctive identity. Flemish weavers settled in the area in the fourteenth century, introducing a wool- and cotton-weaving tradition, but it was the introduction of textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution that prompted the town's rapid urbanisation and development. Through the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Bolton was a boomtown and one of the largest and most productive centres of cotton spinning in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 144567873X
• ISBN13: 9781445678733
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.5" x 9.1"