Ask most people what is their biggest bugbear and many will tell you the state of the roads.
Wardle Street, Bolton, 1945 (Picture: Newsquest)
Pot holes appear to be everywhere but as this photo from 1945 shows, it’s not a new problem.
Pity the poor postman in the photo having to negotiate the water-filled craters on Wardle Street in Bolton - he almost needs a boat to make his deliveries.
Some of the potholes are so big they almost stretch across the road. It doesn’t help that is looks as though the road was a cinder surface rather than Tarmac.
On the right it looks as though it was waste ground which would subsequently be built on with new housing which remains today.
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