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  • By jetwind on December 14, 2005
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    • Entrance to Bolton Rail station - Bolton
    Entrance to Bolton Rail
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    Fly into Mancester airport and join Transpennie express for the 40 minute ride to Bolton via Manchester city centre. The schedule operates 24 hours a day and runs every 15 minutes during day light hours and are less frequent at other times.

  • Theme: Train
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    Moss Bank
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    • ettenaj
  • By ettenaj on November 3, 2003
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    • All Aboard - Bolton
    All Aboard
    by ettenaj
    Moss Bank park is a lovely place to take the children. It has a small animal sanctury with donkey s,goats ducks and many other creatures. It has a good play area and also in the summer time it has a small train that takes you round the park. Also nice gardens to sit in.

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  • Address: Moss Bank Way
  • Directions: Bolton
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    Take a stroll
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  • By ettenaj on October 30, 2003
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    • a lovely day out - Bolton
    a lovely day out
    by ettenaj
    Moses Gate Country Park, nice at any time of year for a quiet stroll around one of the 3 lakes or sit and watch the wildlife. Lovely walks eirther down by the river or along the canal bank, where many a fisherman has sat for a long afternoon!!

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  • Address: Moses Gate Farnworth Bolton
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    Bolton Town Hall
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    • steventilly
  • Updated By steventilly on May 21, 2003
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    • Bolton Town Hall - Bolton
    Bolton Town Hall
    by steventilly
    Opened in 1873 by none other than HRH Prince Albert, this is a quite enormous Victorian edifice standing in front of a large pedestrianised square.
    It was partly destroyed by fire in the 1980's but has been carefully rebuilt & restored.
    The square is a pleasant place to sit & relax after a busy day's shopping (a pity there's no "cafe culture" here though) and there is sometimes entertainment going on (bands etc).
    Behind the town hall is le Mans Crescent (it was too murky to take a picture then), a fine crescent of regency style buildings. In August each year it hosts a Victorian Market - I guess we might visit again in August.

  • Address: Victoria Square
  • Website: http://www.bolton.org.uk/bth.html
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    Hall I' Th' Wood
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    • steventilly
  • Updated By steventilly on May 21, 2003
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    • Hall I' Th' Wood - Bolton
    Hall I' Th' Wood
    by steventilly
    Hall I' Th' Wood is a typical timber framed house dating back to the 1500's. For part of its life it was the home of one Samuel Crompton, inventor of The Spinning Mule. This was a muti-spindled spinning machine capable of producing fine yarns. It helped to revolutionise the weaving industry in Bolton and Lancashire and it is really for this reason that the Hall is now a museum.

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    Hall I' Th' Wood
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  • By steventilly on May 21, 2003
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    • Hall I' Th' Wood - Bolton
    Hall I' Th' Wood
    by steventilly
    The Hall is set in some small parkland on the edge of Bolton.
    It was bought in 1900 (by which time it was in some disrepair) by Lord Leverhulme, the Soap king, who was born in Bolton. He had it restored as a memento to Samuel Crompton, and donated to the town of Bolton.

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    Hall I' Th' Wood - Exterior Detail
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  • By steventilly on May 21, 2003
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    • Hall I' Th' Wood - Detail - Bolton
    Hall I' Th' Wood - Detail
    by steventilly
    This really is a spectacular building, one of the nicest "black & white" buildings I have seen.
    Admission to the hall is very modest (it says £3 but it cost us £2.40 for some reason). You can spend a couple of hours here, and there is often some event or "amusement" - mainly for kids - such as a treasure hunt.

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    Hall I' Th' Wood - Interior I
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  • Updated By steventilly on May 21, 2003
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    • Susan Touching A Table - Bolton
    Susan Touching A Table
    by steventilly
    The hall is filled with old furniture, pictures and so on that all have some local connection. Unlike most museums in this one you CAN touch some of the exhibits - they are clearly marked as to what you can and can't touch. That's nice, because I love textures and can't resist to touch most things.

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    Hall I' Th' Wood - Interior IV
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  • Updated By steventilly on May 21, 2003
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    • Under The Bed - Bolton
    Under The Bed
    by steventilly
    .. so we took a look under the bed (after all, we were allowed to touch this exhibit). Indeed, the matress of the bed is seated on a criss-cross array of ropes. These needed tightening regularly to stop the bed from sagging, and is (supposedly) the origin of the English phrase "night night, sleep tight".

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    Hall I' Th' Wood - Interior V
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  • Updated By steventilly on May 21, 2003
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    • The Spinning Mule - Bolton
    The Spinning Mule
    by steventilly
    The Spinning Mule.
    Invented by Samuel Crompton in 1775 it combined features of the existing Spinning Jenny and Water Frame and had the advantage that large scale versions of it could be produced an be driven by steam engines.
    Crompton was too poor to take out a patent on his invention but used to charge manufacturers a fee to see his machine before they produced a copy of it. Soon his machines were in widespread use but he made very little money from it. He eventually died in poverty.
    Neither myself nor even the museum guy could figure out how the machine worked, either from this part of the machine or from the miniature model that is also on display in the Hall.

  • Directions: A good and simple website explaining the various competing spinning machines of the early industrial era is here: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/TEXmule.htm
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