THIS picture has been sent in by Mrs Carole Heron (nee Lonsdale), who tells me that "it was taken in about 1948, when Lord, Hampson and Lord's Mill went on their annual picnic.
They used to have a collection before they set off, and give it to the children waving them off. This photograph shows my brother Bill Lonsdale, second from the right, and also shown are, among others, Freda and Alan Townson, Rose Fairclough, June Critchley, Rita Gallagher, Irene and Connie Edmondson."
You may be as confused as I was at the name Lord, Hampson and Lord. So I rang Mrs Heron to ask her where it was, because I had never heard of it.
It was, it turns out, Nelson Mill in the Brownlow Way area. I looked it up in the book "The Cotton Mills of Bolton", and found that it was built by Lord, Hampson and Lord in 1860, but closed as a cotton mill in 1952, and was used for engineering after that. The No. 2 mill has been demolished, but No. 1 is still standing.
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