WAKES’ weeks were celebrated throughout the Bolton area with visits to the seaside.

Holidays abroad had yet to gain the popularity they have today, as most people could not afford to travel further than Blackpool or Wales.

Frank Moor was one such reader who used to enjoy his annual holidays seeing the sights Britain had to offer.

In the picture we see below, Frank was just six or seven years old and had been taken to Butlins in Pwhelli by his aunt and uncle where he enjoyed a holiday with his cousin Beatrice.

Frank is the little chap at the front of the picture standing next to a little girl. All the people on this picture — taken on the diving boards of the holiday camp outdoor swimming pool — were from the Bolton area.

Bolton Evening News photographers and reporters would visit the most popular resorts during the Bolton Holidays and would gather together all the Bolton folk for a group picture.

Frank tells us that he now recognises one of the men on the picture, Brian Rothwell, as someone he would eventually work with at Mornington Engineering.

“We never went abroad in those days but would go to local holiday resorts,” explains Frank, who used to live in Breightmet with his parents Frank and Ida but now lives in Halliwell. The picture was taken in 1951, explains Frank who is now aged 70.