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Launch Of Poetry From The Platform Anthology

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We are having a virtual launch of the Bolton Rail Community Partnership anthology next Thursday 15 April at 7.00 pm. There will be readings of entries by category winners and judges. Contributors include Sam Johnson, University of Bolton and Prof Paul Salveson, who have been behind the creation of the new Community Rooms and Gallery at Bolton Station.

Join us on Zoom from 6.50pm - email dave@livefromworktown.org for zoom details

WORK TOWN WORDS EDITION EIGHTEEN

This widely renown publication carries on with Edition 18 with great new writing from a wealth of contributors - click here to view for free!

CALL FOR NEW WRITING

We are now accepting contributions for Edition 19 of the Worktown Words magazine curated by Martin Thomasson on the theme of 'Contact'. Please send your submissions by mid-day on Friday 7th May to info@worktownwords.uk

WORKTOWN WALKS

Following on the success of last year’s 'Cotton, Culture and Characters', we are launching the second of our free online series of historically themed guided walks.

'Edwardian Bolton: Drinkers, Swindlers, Hangmen and Suffragettes' brings to life the history of Bolton Town Centre, starting and ending in Churchgate, a vibrant promenade in 1901 crammed with pubs, theatres and laughter.

You can download the guided walk by clicking here

You can find details of all walks by clicking here

PHOTO EXHIBITION

Click here to go to our Lockdown photo exhibition - our thanks to everyone who participated

MASS OBSERVATION

check out here the section of this site dedicated to the MO studies old and new.

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BILL NAUGHTON

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.

Naughton Resource Website

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.