WorkTown Walks - Three

Here's the latest of our audio self-guided, Worktown Walks, written by Dave Burnham, which is a circular beginning and ending at Turton Tower.

 

https://tinyurl.com/97tfh8yy

 

‘Wander the fields and lanes of Turton Manor and you come across pretty villages, traditional cottages and even a sprinkling of architect designed houses for the rich. But look more carefully and you can see the remains of a truly stunning industrial heritage - a legacy as strong here as anywhere across Lancashire’s manufacturing heartlands.

 

This is where the Kays, the Barlows, the Horrocks and Thomassons turned cottage workshops into commercial empires, sprinkling Turton's landscape with mills, chimneys and bleachworks - creating a landscape as laden with soot and grime as Bolton and Blackburn.

 

So this walk combines the delights of woodland glades and bracing moors with the emerging knowledge of a history which featured the grit and labour Lancashire is known for.’

It also takes in the origins of league football in the area and tells you all about that mysterious WW2 pill box...

 

So get out in the sunshine and explore! There's a map and directions included in the audio downloads folder or available click here:

 

It's free to download though any voluntary donations will go to help fund Live from Worktown's ongoing local arts, heritage and education projects. Funded by Bolton's CVS:

ART & PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION

We will be hosting an exhibition called 'Heart of Bolton' from 1st to 24th July at the Platform 5 Gallery at Bolton Railway Station. It will consist of Photos and Cartoons by Julia Uttley and Dave Burnham with additional photographs from the Bolton public.