Worktown's People

The Mass Observation survey of life in Bolton between 1937 and 1940 is justly celebrated today. The aim was to observe and record everyday life in all its forms in one town – at work, at home, on the street, in the pub, in church. Scores of volunteers observed thousands of conversations and events over a three-year period, which were recorded in careful, sometimes dizzying detail. No other town ha...