BOLTON Town Centre is a vibrant place and has been so for as many years as most of us can remember.

With its independent shops and stores as well as the bigger national ones it has always been a fascinating place to visit for local folk and those coming from further afield, sometimes on coach trips.

Here we take a look at some of our more popular streets and roads.

As you can see some have changed beyond all recognition and others are easily recognised.

Unfortunately we do not have dates for some of the pictures here in the gallery.