"Continuous Progress" - Bolton Corporation Gas Department : advert in The Book of Bolton, 1929 : official handbook issued by Bolton Corporation, Lancashire, UK
One of the many municipal publications issued by UK local authorities during the mid-20th Century intended to describe the services, industries and amenities of the borough. This, from 1929 and issued by the County Borough of Bolton in industrial Lancashire, is one that is firmly aimed at attempting to introduce the town to perspective investors as well as imparting information to the town's residents.
As usual the descriptive text is interspersed with adverts for many local manufacturers and undertakings. Here the municipally owned Gas Department is telling of continous progress. Bolton was an early adopted of town gas with the private Bolton Gas Light & Coke Company opening their works in Forge St (later Gas Street) in 1819. Acquired by the Corporation in 1872 the Gas St works was expanded and an additional plant was constructed at Lum Street. The Corporation's supply area was, for a municipality, quite extensive covering towns outside the boundary such as Horwich.
"Continuous Progress" - Bolton Corporation Gas Department : advert in The Book of Bolton, 1929 : official handbook issued by Bolton Corporation, Lancashire, UK
One of the many municipal publications issued by UK local authorities during the mid-20th Century intended to describe the services, industries and amenities of the borough. This, from 1929 and issued by the County Borough of Bolton in industrial Lancashire, is one that is firmly aimed at attempting to introduce the town to perspective investors as well as imparting information to the town's residents.
As usual the descriptive text is interspersed with adverts for many local manufacturers and undertakings. Here the municipally owned Gas Department is telling of continous progress. Bolton was an early adopted of town gas with the private Bolton Gas Light & Coke Company opening their works in Forge St (later Gas Street) in 1819. Acquired by the Corporation in 1872 the Gas St works was expanded and an additional plant was constructed at Lum Street. The Corporation's supply area was, for a municipality, quite extensive covering towns outside the boundary such as Horwich.