Inner ring road would spell end for Bolton weavers' cottages

Cottages on Goodwin Street in Bolton, originally built for some of the town’s many handloom weavers, were facing demolition in July 1969. Goodwin Street, Bolton, 1969 (Picture: Newsquest) The row close to Folds Road were scheduled to come down as a new ring road was developed. They dated back to the early Nineteenth Century with the cellars of the cottages being used as workshops by the weavers.

You can see the railings in front of the steps leading down to the cellars. On the corner it looks as though there had been the obligatory corner shop, a major feature of terraced street in the Fifties and Sixties. We wonder if the two men in their boiler suits striding off to work werre aware of the homes they were walking past.

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