See the Conquering Heroes

Where the hell did you find that? (Don't say YouTube....)

Enormous crowd. Fantastic!

Does anyone know if that was the fabled David Jack?

Apparantly so...

There are quite a few historical videos release by British Pathe:

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Bookmarked that link for tomorrow.

Cheers.

Can't work out what street they're on? Any ideas?

wanderlust wrote:Can't work out what street they're on? Any ideas?

Hard to tell.. My guess would be Bradshawgate.

Reebok Trotter wrote:

wanderlust wrote:Can't work out what street they're on? Any ideas?

Hard to tell.. My guess would be Bradshawgate.

Looks like a square - perhaps approaching the Town Hall steps before the development?

I was just about to say, it looks like it was filmed from the Town Hall steps.

Look at the size of the crowd - be great if we were followed like this nowadays

I was driving the bus

That clip is incredible.

My Dad was born in '47 and has told me many a time about the crowds at Burnden when he first started going in the late 50's and I always thought he was over-exaggerating.

Clearly not.....

Bolton fans were like Zulus back then.....farsends of 'em, as far as the eye could see.

And old man was right.

Cheers for posting that, mate.