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True, but if southerners are asking me about the dark satanic mills I'd rather talk to them about the fact that we have loads of open spaces, parks and are surrounded by countryside than bang on about Top o'th Brow or Dobble as their perception is that Bolton's nowt but endless terraced streets which we all know isn't true.King Bill wrote:wanderlust wrote:
This. I'm from the north of Bolton and still have a share in a house there and it's a beautiful part of the world so in Norfolk I tend to wax lyrical about the lakes, the reservoirs, the woods, forests and hills that they don't have around here to make it clear that they've missed out if they haven't been to Rivington, Belmont, Turton, Rammy, Affetside and the Bolton green belt.
That's not really Bolton though is it, more the fringes. A couple of places you mentioned are not even in the Borough. Bolton's working class history lies in the heart of the town and in the tightly packed houses around it, and as has been said, it has had its heart ripped out. The town centre is on the decline, no matter how the so called town council try to "re-invent" it.
We have our share, but Bolton is more than that.
