In the early 1930s, Bolton would witness one of the largest civic building programmes with Le Mans Crescent and an extension to the town hall all being completed.
This photo is from 1932 and shows the town’s clerk of works, a Mr Ramsbottom, watching as one of the six ton metal stanchions was lifted in to place. The steel girder, some 52 feet long, would support the upper floors of the town hall extension.
The Bolton Evening News reported: “In a month’s time, a huge steel cage will have been tacked on to the present town hall building. This network of stanchions and girders is the skeleton on which is to be grafted a Council Chamber, a central collecting hall and several suites of offices for various corporation departments.”
It also reported that the police headquarters and court on Le Mans Crescent would shortly be roofed. The development was progressing at a rapid rate with around 10,000 bricks a day being laid around the site.
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