More from Worktown, Bolton in 1937, a new online exhibition

I hadn’t planned on going back to Bolton and the Worktown exhibition, but the images of working class life are so compelling that I am drawn back to them.

BOLTON WORKTOWN, PHOTOGRAPHY AND ARCHIVES FROM MASS OBSERVATION http://boltonworktown.co.uk/

Having said that, the real difficulty comes in choosing an image, so I have selected two and that will be it, otherwise you might not go to the site, and that would be a shame.

The caption reads Woman wearing a shawl leaves the polling station at St Thomas School, Bentinck Street, on the day of the 1938 Farnworth by-election.

I rather think it speaks for itself and is a vivid reminder that a woman in a shawl was still a common sight and would remain so till after the last word war.

And in the same vein the picture of a woman cleaning the stone in front of a house is iconic



Pictures; courtesy of Bolton Library Museum Services,  1993.83.06.20 and  1993.83.19.03,