More Bolton pix - Deane Clough

This pencil sketch has been made from a vintage postcard.

Rivington Pike

Bolton pictures

I've decided to do a series of little pictures about Bolton. I used to go up Rivington Pike so I've started with a drawing of the Pigeon Tower from a photograph I found online.

I think the rule I'm going to set for this is going to be that these pictures must be small, like small windows with restricted views. Tiny glimpses of a world that is gone, for me anyway.

Autobiographical sketches 60 - Bolton Aquarium

Autobiographical Sketches 59 - Spare room

My dad bought loads and loads of PG Tips so he could get a free clock radio. We kept the packets in the spare room with his golf clubs.

Autobiographical sketches 53 - Bolton hiking

Pennine Folk

I think I'm really a Pennine folk artist being from Bolton. Walking on Winter Hill, hiking up Cautley Spout (okay that's Cumbria)

Bolton Elephants

Here's a lovely site with pictures of Bolton elephants.

http://www.bolton.org.uk/elephants.html

The Elephant Gate in Bolton

Humphrey Jennings and the Elephant Gate in Bolton ... in this documentary they're making a big fuss about him linking exotic and industrial climes ... ut the elephant is known as the Bolton image ... it's on the town crest ... Bolton is exotic, I always found it an exotic landscape as well as a Lancashire one, through the links to India through the cotton trade and the recent large immigrant community, the Pakistani shops their bright goods in the red-brick rained-on cobble streets.