I have a picture of the Volunteer in a booklet by the Turton Local History Society. Martin Briscoe Fort William M&LFHS | Gwynedd FHS -----Original Message----- From: pneanne [mailto:pne.anne@ntlworld.com] Sent: 13 May 2006 13:18 To: ENG-LAN-BOLTON-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ENG-LAN-BOLTON] Volunteer, Turton Hi Pete, The Volunteer is a pub. It is still there, but was boarded up when we went past a couple of weeks ago. I don't know if they are doing it up again. This pub was my gt. gt. grandfather Amos Howarth's local. He visited it on the night he died in 1876. Anne in Bolton. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pete Hulme" <phulme@glasshouse.com> To: <ENG-LAN-BOLTON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2006 10:28 AM Subject: [ENG-LAN-BOLTON] Volunteer, Turton > In the 1861 census, one of my families address' is listed as "Volunteer" > in Turton. To my modern ear it sounds like it could have been a pub, but > there's more than one household there. My ancestor there was Tomas > Fielding, listed as a Provisions Dealer, not a publican.

The picture is the Volunteer, Bromley Cross - is it the same one? Martin Briscoe Fort William M&LFHS | Gwynedd FHS -----Original Message----- From: Martin Briscoe [mailto:mbriscoe@zetnet.co.uk] Sent: 13 May 2006 13:29 To: ENG-LAN-BOLTON-L@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: [ENG-LAN-BOLTON] Volunteer, Turton I have a picture of the Volunteer in a booklet by the Turton Local History Society.