It’s like a third world dump nowadays sadly

1944 -70 ,Bolton was good every time I go back it looses its character 🙁

Wonderfully presented! Sadly nostalgic to compare Bolton's beautiful and bleak transformation. Some images were my parents past, some were my own recollections. So much has changed and not always for the positive. I've lived in Canada for over 50 years and yet a visit to Bolton isn't about it's transformation so much as it is about it's past and what has sadly been lost over the years, most of Bolton's progress is neither apparent or positive. I much appreciate Bolton for it's past than it's present.

Nostalgia! watching these images of the past remind a person of the some times bleak and beautiful memories of Bolton. Many of the images were in my fathers lifetime. Yet! at 3:32 I am reminded of my first job on the construction of Bow St Multi Storey car park, Jack my co-worker and Sue my first girl friend met between the store and the storage location in the image. The Navada and Palais D'Danse are so relative. Both stories concluded in Canada in the decades later. Bolton Town Hall and the Crescent, both iconic and by the Architects Bradshaw Gass and Hope I worked for later. Images of Bank St, where the Queen Elizabeth motorcade passed feet away at the junction of Church gate. Memories of "The Family Way" and "Spring and Port Wine" being filmed in town. When I return to Bolton after 50 years these are the memories which are refreshed. It's sadly a place I can visit and reflect, but now could never live.

I was born in 1959 but these pics bring back memories

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RIP BOLTON😢

Here ever you are. Thank you for this video. So many years gone.

Beautifully presented, dont know idea why i have tears running down my face. I was born in Bolton in the 60s.

hauntingly affective

brought back a few memories, good and sad at the same time

A lost nation

THAT LOOKS FANTASTIC THAT DOESN'T IT.GREAT BRITAIN AND THE WORLD.WE NEED TO REBUILD SOCIETY AND THE COMMUNITY.HAVING TEN TRILLION DOLLARS PER SQUARE CENTIMETRE JUST FEELS SO FLAT!

Would you do that again please but much slower. I did not have time to orient myself. I was not born here but I have happily lived here for nearly ten years.

It's time the council realised that Bolton thrived with its community of stalls in the Market Hall. The outside market thrived with variety. The town has been ruined and money wasted. Bolton was a great place. Now their is nothing left . The photo's are great and remind me of a Bolton you were proud of. Pity they cant or won't turn our town back into the days when it was thriving. I think if we went back to basics people would be happier and local economy would improve. We will never be Manchester.

Love it!

Was amazing nostalgia brilliant talented guys

I miss bolton

too true. Great song.

i born in bolton at 11john cross street.....i hope to returne just for see my city

Beautiful music, what is it?

My Father loved Bolton, but I couldn't wait to get out of the place and came to Australia at the age of 21 in 1970. The last time I was there was back in 1980 I googled Bolton recently and many of the changes I see leave me somewhat Depressed. It used to be such a safe lively vibrant place with friendly people; now what I hear about it, it has lost its charm. Sad.

Yes, this old town has moved on from the halcyon days of the 60's & 70's, when markets swelled and pavements thronged. I'm saddened to watch this and have the memories come flooding back whilst realising things never stay the same. The memories of my mum and dad always come back to haunt me when I remember back to happier times yet I know this must be. Thanks for the pictures and the memories.

*I suppose these amazing photographs are really only of interest to people with a connection to Bolton. I grew up, and lived there from 1963 to 1989. The disappointment (and it's a massive error), is that because Bolton has changed so drastically over the years, I haven't a clue where most of these places are, other than the few which have the date printed on the originals. I was really looking forward to coming to this site. Right now, these pictures could be from any of dozens of Lancashire towns. So disappointing. Sorry!*

Fantastic video, mostly recognisable but captions would have been nice. Ever evolving , hopefully all change again with the plans that are in place. Superb old town.

More like Boltonistan now. I was driving up St Helens rd last week, and i thought i was in the middle East for a moment. :-(

Great leaver for life

So sad to see what our town Bolton as now become a shadow of its former self.

Still amazing voice and song

For a farnworth lad in the 60s Bolton was a day out , happy times 😂

great pics of bolton of I remember ..but also great music chosen for it and fits right ; The Ashokan Farewell !.

nice,music.and.lovely

Love

Memory lane, I am sat in front of my computer on the other side of the world looking at a place that according to the comments I wouldn't recognise or like. I left in April 1970 and never regretted doing so, never look back, keep only the good memories.

As a 2000s kid, I was always fascinated at the old photos of Bolton. My dad often told me stories about the railway track in Lever Bridge; apparently my uncle used to do monkey bars underneath it! Yikes. Bolton is a lovely town, with lots of lovely people, and I'm proud to be a Boltonian.

Tone & vocals spot on...

very enjoyable to see these old photos

The best AC/DC act/show/cover band ever ... They really need to reunite ... It's time guys !

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Oi Oi!

What a beautiful video!!! Shame how Bolton is today 😢😢😢

God bless Harvey

Pre dickheads,druggies an Muslims......... inshallah!

Are all these Bolton center? My father in laws mother, (wife's grandmother) had an off-licence in Breightmet. There was another nearby, so two off licenses during the war. I'm trying to find some photographs of the shops. Would appreciate any help or direction.

Fantastic snapshots of bygone Bolton.Know the town centre very well.great memories

I grew up in Bolton during the fifties and sixties, and although time definitely colours memories favourably, I know that the place had character. Filthy weather, lots of slums, but great people, cinemas, some great pubs. The weather is still filthy, the pubs have nearly all gone (the huge Muslim population does not use pubs) and the remaining ones are raucous and unwelcoming. The cinemas have all been pulled down, hundreds of old buildings have been leveled and replaced with mosques, hundreds more leveled and replaced with nothing. The old market hall has been turned into an American style shopping mall. Bolton is not the town I knew. I paid a couple of visits recently to see family and friends who still live there, but I won't go back, too depressing.

Absolutely amazing song

Love the pics

At 00.10 Is this Moses Gate station?

Ok so the town centre looked welcoming in a hovis sort of way but housing was bloody grim.