IN June, 1940, evacuees were looked after in Bolton. This group visited Park Mill in Gaskell Street to see the various processes connected with cotton spinning. Our report at the time said there were many young children among the evacuees "now needing the hospitality of friends in Bolton and district." They arrived at the Bolton reception centres from their homes in "a dangerous area." That vague phrase probably means wartime censorship was being employed.
There is another flavour of wartime on the same page - an account of how a group of AFS volunteers at Tootal Broadhurst Lee demonstrated procedures for fighting incendiary bomb fires.
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