WHEN I wrote about abattoirs in Bolton recently, it brought a letter from Mrs Lilian Kearnes, of Lightbounds Road, Bolton, who says that there was one I did not mention, in Scholey Street, off Manchester Road, where pigs were killed
"When I was a child in the 1920s, we kids were always allowed in, and if we took a bucket of potato peelings we were given a penny," she writes. "I lived in Rose Hill at the time, and collected all the peelings from neighbours and earned many a penny. We used to watch the pigs being slaughtered, but I don't think I could do it now."
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