HERE we can see some of the visitors to the Bolton Flower Festival at Bolton Parish Church in August 1983.
The flower display was demonstrating the life of Canon Slade — who gave his name to Canon Slade School.
Canon Slade School was founded in 1855 by the then Vicar of Bolton, Canon James Slade. Over those one and a half centuries the school has served families throughout Bolton and much farther afield in providing an education set firmly within a strong Christian ethos and continues to do so today.
James Slade was born in Daventry, Northamptonshire. He moved to Bolton in 1817 and dedicated himself to improving the conditions for the people of Bolton and to building churches in the expanding suburbs.
In this Bolton Evening News image we see (from left): Mr Jim Stott and his wife Edna, of Whitegate Drive in Astley Bridge and Mrs Marjorie Isabele McLean of Crompton Way, Bolton who are taking a look at the flower display and learning more about the great man who had a long and distinguished connection with the town that became his home.
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