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Bolton was built on the cotton industry with, at its peak, over 200 mills in the town: the last closed in 2002 after a gradual decline throughout the twentieth century. This illustrated book includes information about the transport infrastructure that made all this industrial activity practicable, as well as essential public utilities.

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Bill Jones is a retired chartered engineer, who has been involved in industrial archaeology for many years. He is a member of the Association for Industrial Archaeology and the Manchestr Region Industrial Archaeology Society. Bill is author of The Dictionary of Industrial Archaeology (Sutton, 1996), and has contributed a number of articles to heritage magazines. He has lived in Bolton for over forty years.

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