Sixties Spotting Days at Bolton
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Published 2024-07-15
A huge thank you to all the photographers listed, who had the foresight to take photos back in the sixties- and then generously allowed me to use their brilliant work. Thank you!
Thank you also to the composers and musicians who made their work available for folk like me to use.
Thanks to my partner Petra for her awesome post production skills.
The photographers-In no particular order-
Simon David Coope- Contributions to the Facebook group, Railways around Bolton before 1996.
Roger Norfolk- www.flickr.com/photos/159241141@N07/
Andy Marland- www.theviewfromthenorth.org/
GlitchFan2428- youtube.com/results?search_query=glitchfan2428
Vernon Sidlow- www.facebook.com/vernon.sidlow?locale=en_GB
on Flickr- www.flickr.com/photos/sidlow/
Nigel Valentine- www.facebook.com/groups/163976490369879/user/10000…
on Flickr- www.flickr.com/photos/hughesfowler/
Chris Lawton's Railway and Organ Video Channel- youtube.com/results?search_query=chris+lawton+orga…
David Ingham- www.flickr.com/people/15462727@N07
Ben Brooksbank- www.geograph.org.uk/profile/44502
Martin Addison- www.geograph.org.uk/profile/4942
David Dixon- www.geograph.org.uk/profile/43729
Andy Bramah- andybramahphotography.co.uk/
Robert Anderson- www.thetransportlibrary.co.uk/
Jim Carter- www.thetransportlibrary.co.uk/
J. E. Bell- www.thetransportlibrary.co.uk/
John Raines- www.thetransportlibrary.co.uk/
Neville Stead Collection- www.thetransportlibrary.co.uk/
Reelstreets- www.reelstreets.com/
East Lancashire Railway- www.eastlancsrailway.org.uk/
John the Cloud- / @johnthecloud
National Library of Scotland- www.nls.uk/
Bolton News- www.theboltonnews.co.uk/
George Woods
Lee Johnson
Martin Tester- www.geograph.org.uk/profile/66761
The Urban Collective- / @theurbancollectivewefilmit
Anistr.com- www.anistr.com/
Music:
CC sounds-
Wind Waves, Sound Ideas- Cyberlink
Inconsciousness, Mini Vandals- YouTube
Wandering Soul, Asher Fulero- YouTube
Keep on Movin' King Canyon- YouTube
Mission, Soundjewel- YouTube
Going it Alone, Sound Ideas, Cyberlink
Psychadelicacy, Doug Maxwell
Nineties Pad, Brian Bolger- YouTube
When the Ash Settles, The Westerlies- YouTube
When All of this is Over, The Westerlies- YouTube
Burden Laid Down, The Westerlies- YouTube
Boreal, Asher Fulero- YouTube
I don't want to do this without you, Late Night Feeler- YouTube
Bike Sharing to Paradise- Dan Bodan- YouTube
Flapper Fringes- Cyberlink
Crow sounds: James Davidson vimeo.com/user5951792
The good the bad the ugly remix by Timbre -- freesound.org/s/369422/
All Comments (21)
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What an amazing film,I really enjoyed watching it,thank you very much for sharing it with us
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Wonderful, precious memories and beautifully narrated .
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It brings back my trainspotting memory. Never got to Bolton, but did cycle to Patricroft from Hazel Grove where I lived! Unbelievable how much everything has changed now, and how lucky we were. Happy memories.
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Another beautiful film. Your narration has a beautiful tone. It communicates exactly the right mix of nostalgia and longing.
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Great to see back into my family's birth place. Grandad a driver on the L and Y based at Bolton, auntie lived off Green Lane, near the junction with Crescent Road, my Dad worked at the ( very smelly) tannery ( Walkers) and grew up on the 'flower estate" in Farnworth. Lived on Primrose Avenue ! The film was well-researched and edited and MUCH appreciated by me. Thank you.
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What a wonderful film, smoke, grime and coaldust included. And here's me thinking shed spotting, shed bunking in, the whole train/steam immersion....not to mention the added attraction of women, beer and motorbikes was a figment of my imagination. Thanks, totally revitaised now!
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Wonderful nostalgia! Many years ago a Bolton chap called Dennis Armitage told me that "Crabs" were known as "Dippers" because of the pronounced dip in the running plate. Many of us from the Wirral loved Birkenhead's Crabs and nearly saved our star loco 42942 but couldn't raise the cash. Thanks for the memories though.
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Thanks Ian, pure unadulterated nostalgia. Nobody does it better than you. See you on the next one 🤙
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Superb video ,happy and simpler times
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A magical bit of nostalgia. Excellent presentation, with no hype. Such a pleasure to watch and listen to. Thank you. Subscribed.
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Wonderful memories, thanks so much for showing us all of a certain age what our young lives with a love of steam engines were like.
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A wonderful story, beautifully told.
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Now this is a happy memory, I lived a couple of streets away from the shed, as did Paul Salvesen, if memory serves me he had an engine chimney in his front garden, this was my playground oh the bollockings I’ve had for being on the shed, worth it though, thank you for posting 👍
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A beautifully produced and narrated film. Love it!
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What an excellent production... a wonderful trip down memory lane. Being born and brought up in Bolton, I remember the sight and sound of almost every image... even the smell of Walker's Tannery. Great stuff!
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Absolute superb, so full of memories. I was born and bred in Bolton but now live in Perth Australia. The clean locos were actually cleaned by a group of boys which I think included Steve Leyland and Harvey Scowcroft.
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I thoroughly enjoyed this, thank you. I remember hanging around Tebay sheds near Kendal. We used to make notes of the engine numbers. It was a wonderful time when nobody was glued to smart (dumb) phones.
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Thank you for a beautifully told story .
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Great stuff! Voice and narration perfect. It takes me back to myy spotting days in the 50s and 60s. Mainly Derby, with trips all over.
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Lovely video. Many thanks. 👍🙂
