Bolton Life
A Roma Rehearsal
On the 12th May, I was pleased to be invited to meet a Roma group who get together every Sunday at Bolton’s Socialist Club, thanks to a collaboration between the club and a charity called KaskoSan. I’d been promoting a Live from Worktown project for National Diary Day so was keen to meet with a
Winter Hill 125 Commemorative Walk
Along the path of peaceful protest I’d been looking forward to this event since I first heard about it earlier this year. As an avid walker and firm believer of our rights to access the countryside, I just couldn’t miss out on the 125th anniversary celebrations of the 1896 Mass Trespass walk from Bolton to
Remember when . . . ?
. . . we’d only wear masks for fancy dress, when socialising was just so free and easy and when you could walk straight into a shop, supermarket, pub, restaurant, museum, gallery (or indeed any public venue) without a thought or a care in the world? It’s a year on since Boris’ life-changing address to
Bolton’s New Normal
As I publish this blog, it’s almost six months since the country went into Lockdown and three months since my first blog on how Bolton is coping with these changes, Bolton under Lockdown. Following on from that we’ve had a tightening of the rules, then a relaxing of the rules and now Bolton has also
North Bolton VE Day Parties
I expect 2020’s remembrance of VE Day was intended to be quite a grand affair but the lockdown muted plans such that in the end, they were sadly far from the scale of the street parties of the Queen’s 1977 Silver Jubilee. Despite that, I’d heard word of one taking place near to me so
Bolton Under Lockdown
Even though I’ve been out walking locally on a regular basis since the start of the Lockdown, I’ve generally taken a northerly direction towards the moors. A few weeks ago, on Saturday the 25th April to be precise, I decided to head in the opposite direction and walk into Bolton’s town centre. Sadly, this part of