Looking again at some of the pictures there seems to be some comments written by some points and they are a similar white so I think they must have been enhanced for some reason. But they are excellent pictures, pity the library doesn't put scans up on their website! Martin Briscoe Fort William M&LFHS | Gwynedd FHS > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Janet C > Sent: 16 June 2008 18:20 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [ENG-LAN-BOLTON] Roads / Streets of Bolton > > > I have a copy of the book too, and have just had a look at > the photos. I see what you mean! On some of the photos the > streets are so light coloured they almost look like they've > been Photoshopped! However, looking at some of the > illustrations of single mills, several show cobbled roads in > front of them - and light coloured cobbles at that. So I > would favour the cobble theory. Slightly surprising that the > cobbles didn't get as dirty as the factory walls though, so > maybe I'm wrong. > Thanks for pointing it out. Just goes to show that we should > look more closely at things that at first glance don't seem > to contain much new information. > Regards > Janet C

Re streets,, one street that might be in the book. Maria St runs off Gladstone St Halliwell, is still surfaced with sets or otherwise known as cobbles, it might answer the question on colour. Martin Briscoe <[email protected]> wrote: Looking again at some of the pictures there seems to be some comments written by some points and they are a similar white so I think they must have been enhanced for some reason. But they are excellent pictures, pity the library doesn't put scans up on their website! Martin Briscoe Fort William M&LFHS | Gwynedd FHS > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Janet C > Sent: 16 June 2008 18:20 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [ENG-LAN-BOLTON] Roads / Streets of Bolton > > > I have a copy of the book too, and have just had a look at > the photos. I see what you mean! On some of the photos the > streets are so light coloured they almost look like they've > been Photoshopped! However, looking at some of the > illustrations of single mills, several show cobbled roads in > front of them - and light coloured cobbles at that. So I > would favour the cobble theory. Slightly surprising that the > cobbles didn't get as dirty as the factory walls though, so > maybe I'm wrong. > Thanks for pointing it out. Just goes to show that we should > look more closely at things that at first glance don't seem > to contain much new information. > Regards > Janet C :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: Except for personal messages, please post replies to the list. Other people can learn from them! :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message