Fluidr / Budby's "bolton blue plaques" set

[35569] Bolton : Little Bolton Methodist Church

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Little Bolton Wesleyan Methodist Church (former), Higher Bridge Street, Bolton, Greater Manchester, 1803-04.
By Peter Rothwell (d1824).
Grade ll listed.

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[35622] Bolton : Bridgeman Buildings

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Bridgeman Buildings, Exchange Street, Bolton, Greater Manchester, c1865.
Refurbished 1990.

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[35612] Bolton : Hardcastle, Cross & Co

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RBS Bank, 46-48 Deansgate, Bolton, Greater Manchester, 1875.
By Cunliffe & Freeman.
Grade ll listed.

The first commercial bank in Bolton. Hardcastle, Cross & Co. Opened in Water St July 1818 moved to this site in 1875 and merged in 1878 with Manchester & Salford Bank which in 1901 became Williams Deacons Bank. Now part of the Royal Bank of Scotland.

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[35594] Bolton : St Helena Mill

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St Helena Mill, Pool Street, Bolton, Greater Manchester.
Grade ll listed.

This eleven-bay steam-powered mill was built in the late 1820s with four storeys and an attic. It stands partly on the site of an earlier water-powered cotton mill of 1777. From the late 1830s it was occupied by Robert Walker and used for cotton waste spinning, probably on mules. Its continued use as a cotton waste mill probably explains the survival of the building. The site also included two red brick extensions of 1897 & 1906. The mill continued to be used for cotton waste spinning until 1979 and by 1999 the two extension had been demolished and the mill refurbished.

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[35636] Bolton : 19 Silverwell Street - JW Wallace

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19 Silverwell Street, Bolton, Greater Manchester, early c19.
Offices of Bradshaw, Gass & Hope, Bolton's oldest architectural practice.
Grade ll listed.

JW Wallace founder of the 'Eagle Street College' dedicated to the works of WALT WHITMAN spent his working life here 1867-1912.

Give me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling;
Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard;
Give me a field where the unmow’d grass grows;
Give me an arbor, give me the trellis’d grape;
Give me fresh corn and wheat—give me serene-moving animals, teaching content;
Give me nights perfectly quiet, as on high plateaus west of the Mississippi, and I looking up at the stars;
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers, where I can walk undisturb’d;
Give me for marriage a sweet-breath’d woman, of whom I should never tire;
Give me a perfect child—give me, away, aside from the noise of the world, a rural, domestic life;
Give me to warble spontaneous songs, reliev’d, recluse by myself, for my own ears only;
Give me solitude—give me Nature—give me again, O Nature, your primal sanities!

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