Tonge Moor

Preparations are underway for the town's food and drink festival which in 2021 will take place on the square and surrounding streets from 27 August to 31 August.

In the town centre.

Bolton’s imposing town hall stands in Victoria Square (once the site of the town's market). First opened in 1873, it was extended in the 1930s. It is a Grade II* listed building (List Entry 1388295 Link Historic England)

Elephants feature prominently as symbols around the town of Bolton and its town hall. The symbol of the elephant has been used in Bolton for a long time and there is some circumstantial evidence to suggest that the Great Bolton Improvement Trustees used the elephant as a heraldic device in the 1790s but there is no documentary proof to back this up. One of the first recorded uses was in the official stamp of the Clerk to the Board of Trustees in 1799. The Trustees of Great Bolton adopted an elephant and castle as the town’s emblem long before the incorporation of the borough in 1838. In 1890 the County Borough of Bolton registered a new coat of arms with the College of Heralds, using the Elephant and Castle as a crest. As one might expect, as a symbol of the town, the elephant and castle motif features throughout the town hall. The majority of the elephants inside the town hall are fixtures but some are on items such as chairs in the banqueting hall and on the mayoral insignia, including chains and badges. This one is a decoration on top of a silver tureen in SD7109 : Bolton Town Hall, Entertaining Room Adjacent to the Mayor's Parlour.

Bolton’s imposing town hall stands in Victoria Square (once the site of the town's market). First opened in 1873, it was extended in the 1930s. It is a Grade II* listed building (List Entry 1388295 Link Historic England)

Originally the courtroom.

A view of Victoria Square and the town's War Memorial from the (former) main entrance to Bolton Town Hall, looking between the pillars at the top of the steps. The Bolton Cenotaph War Memorial is possibly one of the finest of the many memorials in England commemorating the end of the 1914-1918 War. It is a Grade II Listed Building (List Entry 1388289 Link Historic England).

This Ceravezza marble bust of King Edward VII by George Frampton was funded by subscription and unveiled on 19 December 1912 in what was then the Albert Hall. It was one of the few artifacts to survive the Town Hall fire in 1981. Edward VII had opened Bolton Town Hall in 1873 whilst he was Prince of Wales.

Bolton’s imposing town hall stands in Victoria Square (once the site of the town's market). First opened in 1873, it was extended in the 1930s. It is a Grade II* listed building (List Entry 1388295 Link Historic England)

The building, dating from 1867, now houses a skills and employment advice centre together with other advice and social help bodies.

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.

Centre and towards the horizon the town hall clock tower can be seen, and to its left, St. Peter's Church - Bolton Parish Church.

Boarded up pub on the Bury Road.

The bush on the tower has appeared since this SD7309 : St Chad's Church, Tonge Fold was taken in 2011.

The building, possibly in industrial use has a stone carving stating that it was St Chad's Sunday School.

The town hall is on the right and the parish church left of centre. Manchester buildings can be seen on the skyline. Photographed from Scout Road.