Mona Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 Haslam park , when we had a bandstand and band every Sunday flying down the hill on a cardboard box straight into the middlebrook fishing, paddling, peeing in the middlebrook taking flowers home from Overdale crematorium waste for your mum the nevada the nocturne the Palais The astonishment of Quintins on derby street burnden park in the rain burnden park in the snow burnden park in the sun ( 🤔) normid 🙄 sue at the chippy Walking down Manny road with your scarf the good days and the gruesome days and the glory days Merry Christmas everyone as we used to sing in the 80s / 90s ” things can only get better” and “ shout it to the top” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rudy Posted December 13, 2020 Members Share Posted December 13, 2020 This might sound weird but whenever I’m travelling with work and I come home and I see the red lights on the winter hill it reminds me I’m almost home and where I’m from. That makes me proud Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mona Posted December 13, 2020 Author Share Posted December 13, 2020 Me too been all over the world you see winter hill and you’re home Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lt. Aldo Raine Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 I know most of it technically isn't Bolton but the view from the Two Lads at the top of Winter Hill would be in my list of reasons why I like living here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Carlos Posted December 13, 2020 Moderators Share Posted December 13, 2020 Budgies. In the Arndale. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glennboltw Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 Kearsley roundabout..... As a kid coming home from me holidays from Cornwall knowing where I am and knowing I'm back home in Bolton. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Spider Posted December 13, 2020 Site Supporter Share Posted December 13, 2020 Mosques Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayjayoghani Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 The ginnels for me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomski Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 The people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Zico Posted December 13, 2020 Moderators Share Posted December 13, 2020 I love the view of Horwich from the A6 / Blackrod Not many towns look so nice embedded in the hills/countryside Picturesque Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breightmet Boy Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 as a kid after the six weeks holiday travelling along St Peters Way and seeing the back of the Lever End and Burnden Paddock after a grusome drive back from Cornwall, looking up at the floodlights and thinking with pride "theyre ours". Whilst on a school holiday in Belgium and our hotel having a Wadsworths Lift LTD, Bolton. being told my bedtime stories off my older brothers of the match and violence, visualising it all. Our town hall square back in the day and giving a mate a right bollocking for thinking it was exciting seeing our town hall on fire in the late 70s. Hilda Baker, Stu Francis, Bob Williamson, Fred Dibnah all being on TV. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DazBob Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 Nat Lofthouse Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Traf Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 1 hour ago, DazBob said: Nat Lofthouse Yep. Bolton's finest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
embankment Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 My Birth Certificate . It also says Bolton - Lancashire. Rivington Pike. Burnden Park. The Reebok I drank in - New Zealand Chief . The Swan Cellar Prince Bill Trotters. Saraspariĺla - in the old market hall. Worsleys butchers ( rip Les). Middlebrook. Seccy Bridge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomski Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 Also 10 minutes either way give or take you can be in city or countryside. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burndens Bogs Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 (edited) Must admit, i don’t live in Bolton anymore (but i’m not far away) and i must start by saying that in many ways the town has been ruined from the place it was when i grew up. The Marketplace apart, the town centre has become a shithole and is no longer a nice place to visit. I’m immensely proud of my Bolton roots though and it’s the people that make it special. I remember at the start of last season after we had almost ceased to exist as a club, i took my daughter to Wycombe to watch our kids bravely perform against a far superior team of experienced men. The support for our boys was incredible that day & brought a tear to my eye. To be stood their shouting our support for 90 mins, for what we all knew what was more than likely going to end in defeat made me proud of our support which was very loud and proud that day. Wycombe fans congratulated us on our “fantastic support” outside after the game - that made me feel proud of our town and our people. Another one was in that square in Guimaraes,Portugal, on the day of the game, the flags, the singing - no trouble apart from a few high spirits and almost every person a born and bred Boltonian. I had a few specks of dust in my eye that day, but felt very proud (and pissed) Edited December 14, 2020 by Burndens Bogs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitestar Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 11 hours ago, Mona said: Haslam park , when we had a bandstand and band every Sunday flying down the hill on a cardboard box straight into the middlebrook fishing, paddling, peeing in the middlebrook taking flowers home from Overdale crematorium waste for your mum the nevada the nocturne the Palais The astonishment of Quintins on derby street burnden park in the rain burnden park in the snow burnden park in the sun ( 🤔) normid 🙄 sue at the chippy Walking down Manny road with your scarf the good days and the gruesome days and the glory days Merry Christmas everyone as we used to sing in the 80s / 90s ” things can only get better” and “ shout it to the top” I grew up near to Haslam park and can't remember a bandstand, you are either much older than me or my memory has been altered by keg. A band would sometimes go on that bit at the bottom of the slope down from the putting greens but there was never a bandstand since at least 1968. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitestar Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 Oh! And that tall thin Parky with the glasses was a twat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrelli Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 Fred Dibnah - first series in the 70's. Nothing is more Bolton than that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Carlos Posted December 14, 2020 Moderators Share Posted December 14, 2020 (edited) I was in town the other day, you can romanticise all you like, the back of Mawdesley Street (one of the nicest in Bolton) was overrun with rats, same with the back of Hen and Chickens. Then there was a bloke having a shit on Deansgate, outside the new sweet parlour on the corner of Whittakers. Unless he was trying to imbibe a chocolate smoothie through his arsehole. The only busy bit was JustEat drivers clogging up the road near Maccies. Edited December 14, 2020 by Carlos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Spider Posted December 14, 2020 Site Supporter Share Posted December 14, 2020 14 minutes ago, Carlos said: I was in town the other day, you can romanticise all you like, the back of Mawdesley Street (one of the nicest in Bolton) was overrun with rats, same with the back of Hen and Chickens. Then there was a bloke having a shit on Deansgate, outside the new sweet parlour on the corner of Whittakers. Unless he was trying to imbide a chocolate smoothie through his arsehole. The only busy bit was JustEat drivers clogging up the road near Maccies. Was he a stand up wiper? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Carlos Posted December 14, 2020 Moderators Share Posted December 14, 2020 I'd guess that he wasn't much of a wiper at all tbh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burndens Bogs Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 25 minutes ago, Carlos said: I was in town the other day, you can romanticise all you like, the back of Mawdesley Street (one of the nicest in Bolton) was overrun with rats, same with the back of Hen and Chickens. Then there was a bloke having a shit on Deansgate, outside the new sweet parlour on the corner of Whittakers. Unless he was trying to imbide a chocolate smoothie through his arsehole. Fuckin' hell,that's depressing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Spider Posted December 14, 2020 Site Supporter Share Posted December 14, 2020 21 minutes ago, Carlos said: I'd guess that he wasn't much of a wiper at all tbh. Same as being a stander upper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 1 hour ago, Carlos said: I was in town the other day, you can romanticise all you like, the back of Mawdesley Street (one of the nicest in Bolton) was overrun with rats, same with the back of Hen and Chickens. Then there was a bloke having a shit on Deansgate, outside the new sweet parlour on the corner of Whittakers. Unless he was trying to imbide a chocolate smoothie through his arsehole. The only busy bit was JustEat drivers clogging up the road near Maccies. 💩 We’re great apart from the town centre! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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