THERE was no shortage of presents in the Christmas of 1974, for the children of Elizabeth Ashmore Children’s home.
The women machinists at Trutex Works, in Blackburn Road, collected money, toys and books for the children.
Pictured gathered around the presents are, from left, Mary Birchall, Lynn Minshall and Irene Holt.
The Trutex Works, which made women’s clothes, opened in 1971 and collected for the children’s home each year.
They collected an array of gifts, typical of the 1970’s era including, The Dandy annual based on the long-running British children’s comic, an angel doll and doll in a bassinet, children’s guitar and teddy bear.
The Children’s home was named after Elizabeth Ashmore, known as “Bolton’s Bessie Braddock”. former mayor of Bolton in 1958-1959 year, in recognition of the immense amount of work that she had done on the Children’s Committee, which she chaired from 1952 to 1959.
The home was later demolished in the 1990s and a park in Kestor Street was named after her instead.
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