Where We Meet
Meetings are held at the Great Lever & Farnworth Golf Club, [first floor].
The Bolton FHS members are a friendly group who are happy to welcome visitors [£5 entrance fee, refunded if you join the Society on the night] and ALL members of the MLFHS to their monthly meetings, which are usually at 7.30pm on the first Wednesday of the month, and are held in the
[first floor] Great Lever & Farnworth Golf Club,
Plodder Lane, Farnworth, Bolton, BL4 0LQ
See our Meetings page for details of the next meeting.
Directions
Welcome to Great Lever & Farnworth Golf Club , Plodder Lane, Farnworth, Bolton. BL4 0LQ .
If coming on the M61 our new venue is conveniently located just off junction 4.
- From Manchester: Take the 3rd exit on the roundabout onto Watergate Lane.
- From Horwich/Westhoughton: Take the the first exit at the roundabout onto Watergate Lane.
Turn right at the traffic lights a few hundred yards on onto the B6199, Plodder Lane. Continue down Plodder Lane and take the first left after Slack Fold Lane. This is across from the house with the illustrated low roof in picture 1 below.
- If coming from Over Hulton or Horwich follow B6199 Plodder lane as you would to the Royal Bolton Hospital until you see the house on your right illustrated Picture 1 and GL&F Golf Club entrance Picture 2.
- If coming from Daubhill , or Morris Green, you have the choice maybe of Smethurst Lane or Slack Fold Lane, turning left on B6199 Plodder Lane until you see Pictures 1 and 2.
- From Farnworth and East Bolton follow B6199 Plodder Lane going past the Royal Bolton Hospital junction on your right. Go straight on across the mini roundabout junction with Highfield Road, then 2 minutes on turn right at the house with the illustrated low roof in picture 3 below.
You will enter via picture 2 and proceed a few hundred yards along the lane to the Golf Club as illustrated in pictures 4 and 5. We will be entering the club building via an entrance to the left, behind the grey cars shown in pictures 6 and 7. The entrance is that shown in picture 9 , and we then need to go up the staircase as shown in picture 10 to the room beyond.
PLEASE NOTE , WE ARE UNABLE TO OFFER ANY ROUTINE REFRESHMENTS AT THIS VENUE ALTHOUGH THERE ARE FACILITIES FOR SPECIAL OCCASSIONS.
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Bolton's Heritage
Bolton's Cotton Industry
Bolton's growth in the manufacturing industry was mainly due to its extensive involvement in the processing of cotton.
Bolton had a good source of natural free flowing water, which cotton manufacturers utilised to power their mills and wash the cotton, though the process became more mechanised later on using steam power and the 'spinning mule', invented by Bolton born Samuel Crompton.
The Bolton cotton industry production was boosted significantly by technological investment. Three major investments were significant:
- The establishment of the Ashworth Mill (further enhanced by Samuel Crompton’s spinning mule).
- The introduction of the Peter Drinkwater Mill in 1780, which used a steam engine in 1789.
- The development of the power loom by Edmund Cartwright followed by the dressing frame by William Radcliffe in 1803, which enabled power looms to operate continuously.
In 1929 there were 247 cotton mills in the borough and in 2009 a study revealed that 108 had survived in some form.