WE thought you would like to see these two photographs from our archives.

They both show Great Moor Street in Bolton town centre but from different angles.

The top picture was taken at the end of the 1920s and shows the junction of Great Moor Street and Newport Street.

Waller and Riley’s building, centre, was soon to be demolished following the opening of the firm’s new crescent-shaped premises which became Boots The Chemist at the rear.

Lower down Great Moor Street stood the Mawdsley Street Congregational Church and this was demolished in 1963.

Bolton’s first set of traffic lights came into operation at this junction in May 1929.

The lower picture shows buses moving along Great Moor Street at the junction with Crook Street.

This was close to the bus station hence the number of buses in the picture which was taken in 1969.