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Great idea!
So didn't you say you were from the north of England?
Wars of the Roses country, Lancashire and Yorkshire, and so forth...still driven by the Middle Ages in some ways...
Yes Bolton is in Lancashire. Although for administrative purposes we come under Greater Manchester. My husband was born here and I moved here when we married.
I think historically Manchester was part of Lancashire, even if not now under Lancashire County Council.
I haven't been there for many years.
Yes it was. Bolton people still consider themselves to be in Lancashire, which we are geographically but for admin purposes we come under Greater Manchester. You are very well informed farouk.
I've been in the area but not for many years. I attended an event at UMIST many years ago.
Oh wow, brilliant. We have a university in Bolton and people come from all over the world to study here. We had a couple from Nepal who joined our church when Khim came over with his family to do his masters degree in business studies. And we had Vera from Nigeria and years ago Michael. It is lovely to meet Christians from other cultures.
Sometimes channels of communication can be developed via foreign students which can last a lifetime.
Sounds like Bolton has become very cosmopolitan.
It's good for young ppl to learn how things ppl now take for granted came about by a long process of technological development. Lancashire in particular was at the heart of the industrial revolution.
You can't get away from history in the UK but then every country has its own history. Also here in Bolton we have one of the oldest pubs in the country. It's called the Man and Scythe. A fitting name as it is where the Earl of Derby was kept prisoner before his execution by Oliver Cromwell's army.
It is not a very 'charming' pub. The regulars call it the Cider House and it gets quite a rough clientele. I've only been in a few times.
I was referring ironically I guess to Cromwell's 'charming' men executing the Earl of Darby...
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That is what I miss being here.
I love English history...and love the old building..castles, Stately homes.
I remember when I was younger using the public toilets over there in Hastings.
I kid you not they were no different from when they had been built in Victorian time. Probably state of the art back then.
The 'stalls' were each about as large as my bedroom at home!!! ....why?
To accommodate the huge Victorian crinolines !!
They pulled the old building down when I was about 22.
Pat/Pearl probably remembers as I do...a lady standing at a turnstile when we went to use these facilities...we had to give her a penny (one of the big old fashioned ones, before the common market changed our money) then she would allow us to go in .
All the big stations had a lady to take the money...and we called it "spending a penny" .. Charing Cross, Victoria , Paddington ..all very Victorian.
For me England has changed so much
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