Please note that for various reasons we have decided to extend the period for submitting pieces until February 2021
Click Here for details of how to enter for this Anthology
Once again Dave Burnham has put together a calendar with a selection of Bolton icons which he depicts in his usual, unusual way - along with all the key dates you need to know. Click here to buy
This year's anthology plus others from our history areare available now. Click here to buy
Our team has put together the first of many guided walks which you can find by clicking here
Bill Naughton is Bolton's most successful writer and achieved world wide success with the film 'Alfie' that was released in 1966. He wrote stories, books, plays and 
several films most of which were successful and some of the plays are still performed.
Life from worktown celebrated Bill's life with a festival that ran from November 2017 to July 2018 - details of which you can find in the Archive section of this site.
As part of the festival work was undertaken on unearhing more material about Bill,his writing and his involvement in the pre-war Mass Observation project..
We decided to share this information on a website which you can find by clicking here.