IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Bradshawgate, BOLTON, BL1 1DW
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Bradshawgate, BL1 1DW by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Image Map
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Notes
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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (492 Images Found)
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Nelson Square, Bolton
The statue is of the inventor of The Spinning Mule, and son of Bolton, Samuel Crompton.
Image: © philandju
Taken: 18 Oct 2012
0.01 miles
2
Bradshawgate and Crompton Place
There are plans to demolish Crompton Place and replace it with a hotel, housing, and office space, together with a walkway connecting Bradshawgate with Victoria Square.
Image: © philandju
Taken: 26 Jul 2020
0.02 miles
3
Read all about it!
Seen outside a newsagent's shop on Bradshawgate in July 2007. For the benefit of future generations viewing this archive, an ASBO (Anti-social Behaviour Order) was a legal instrument issued by the courts to control people who were annoying their neighbours. At the time 12 years of age was considered to be a young age to receive an ASBO and therefore newsworthy.
Image: © michael ely
Taken: 19 Jul 2007
0.02 miles
4
Former Post Office, Bradshawgate
The name of the bar which now occupies the building is the main clue to its former use, but the large oval postbox, business postbox and telephone kiosk in a group are also good indicators.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 25 Jul 2012
0.02 miles
5
Buildings on Bradshawgate
The style of architecture confirms this was traditionally one of Bolton's prime commercial streets.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 25 Jul 2012
0.02 miles
6
Statue of Samuel Crompton
In Nelson Square, Bolton. Crompton (1753 - 1827) was the inventor of the spinning mule - a machine which revolutionised the cotton spinning industry worldwide. Crompton lacked the means to take out a patent and eventually made the machine available to a group of manufacturers on the understanding that they would pay Samuel for its use. He, however, received only about £60 in total in contrast to the fortunes earned by copiers of the unpatented machine worldwide.
Crompton married Mary Pimlott in 1780 and had 8 children.
The plaque on the plinth of the statue shows a depiction of Hall i' th' Wood - the house where Crompton was staying at the time of the invention.
Image: © philandju
Taken: 13 Jun 2017
0.02 miles
7
Bench mark, Bradshawgate
On the corner of the former Post Office building http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3081362
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 25 Jul 2012
0.03 miles
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Silverwell Street | Silverwell St / Bradshawgate postbox (ref. BL1 2020 and 202)
Together with a KXPlus telephone kiosk and Silverwell Street Business Box (ref. BL1 2021). The main pillar box is the later EIIR version with Royal Mail rather than Post Office lettering.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 25 Jul 2012
0.03 miles
9
Nelson Square, Bolton
In the foreground, the statue of Samuel Crompton, and behind that the cenotaph memorial to the soldiers of the Bolton Artillery who died in the two world wars.
Image: © philandju
Taken: 2 Jun 2022
0.03 miles
10
Nelson House, Bolton
It is listed at being at Nelson Square
Image: © Kenneth Allen
Taken: 22 Sep 2008
0.04 miles