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It's a site which has change a great deal over the years but which no doubt will stil be familiar to Looking Back readers. This picture shows Bolton General Hospital in December 1976 shortly after the Infirmary had closed with all services transferring...

Ready for the off are local youngsters who left Fanrworth police Station for Port Dinowic in Noth Wales for a cruise on the Greater Manchester Challenge in 1979. Supvervising the teenages during the si-day trip was PC Barry Tipton, left 561893461-ben ...

There wasn't a major incident in Bolton town centre in May 1967 when this photo was taken - just road works. Blackhorse Street was being dug up and as a result the town's fleet of ambulances were moved on to Cheadle Square so they could respond quickly...

Joan Horsfield, centre left, president of Longsight WI presents a garden seat to Mrs Lorna Smallman, the warden of Longsight Lodge, Harwood in March 1989. Looking on during a coffee morning are WI members and Lodge residents 561883412-ben ...

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They remain instantly recognisable today but this photo from April 1987 shows the row of kiosks originally named Octagon Court in the town centre. It looks as though one was a florists and another may have been selling tea and coffee, Do you remember...

Members of St Philip's AODS put on the style for oempublicity photos for their production of the musical Half a Sixpence in 1982. They used Firwood Fold as the backdrop for the pictures to promote the show at theParochial Hall on Bridgeman Street, Bolton...

It's hartd to believe thatt his photo was actually taken in the middle of summer. A torrential downpour in July 1975 left Bow Street in Bolton resembling a lake as drains failed to cope with the large amount of water which fell. The road was blocked for...

General manager John Seddon, centre,did the honours as Noweb opend a new operations centre at Hill Top in Walkden in September 1994. The centre would bring together a number of the communication prociders services on to one site 561642122-ben ...

Things didn't quite run according to plan when the new link road between Horwich and the M61 opened in 1970. Within hours engineers were called to the junction at Lostock Lane and worked until 1am to repair faulty traffic lights which had developed a...