RECORDS were obviously an integral part of this evening - but I doubt whether there was as much fun to be had.

It was a meeting of the Bolton and District Productivity Committee at Bolton Technical College in April, 1955.

The speaker, Mr W Dobson of Dobson and Young, used records to punctuate his talk and was not afraid to be controversial.

On communications, he said that in industry they told downwards and asked upwards - joint consultation was a lot of boloney.

After quoting books which claimed that the worker wanted to belong and be integrated in industry, he said his opinion was that the average fellow did not want to belong.

Other targets included charts - "something you use to confuse somebody" - and music while you work. "There is not a sufficiently large blasphemous vocabulary to tell you what we think of that," he said.

Pictures

Right - Sixties chicks - This picture harks back to half-forgotten times when social life revolved around the mill or factory. In March, 1961, the Works Sports Committee at Montague Burton Ltd in Granville Street, Walkden, organised its first teenage club night. More than 100 young employees turned up to pack the canteen. It was so successful that the Committee decided to make the sessions a permanent feature. The words "Montague Burton's Girls' Club" are written on the back of the print, but maybe the lads were just too shy to pose. That record player was obviously central to the proceedings.

Bottom - Thrifty business - Records were obviously all the rage in 1938, as shown by this advertisement for Bolton Savings Bank in a magazine for the Bolton Centenary Exhibition at the Drill Hall, Silverwell Street.