SIR: I have recently moved to the Bolton area from Preston and I would like to voice my frustration at moving out of Lancashire. Or have I? I look at an old map of Lancashire. I see that Bolton and other towns i.e. Wigan, Rochdale, Oldham etc are all well and truly in Lancashire. So what happened in 1974? (The local government reorganisation). Who decided that these towns could no longer consider themselves to be in Lancashire?
These towns have an industrial right to be in the County of Lancashire. I can accept that the County, as it was, was too big to be an authority on its own, but why did they have to give the partitions stupid and meaningless names? They could have called us North, South and West Lancashire, thus keeping us all in the County of Lancashire.
Let's get Bolton and those other towns back into Lancashire. It does not have to be within the current boundaries of Lancashire County Council, but we could call this area South Lancashire, and I am sure it would make a lot of people happy again.
John Sergeant
Little Stones Road, Egerton
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