I HAVE no doubt that you are aware of Gracie Fields making the film "Sing as we go" in Bolton in 1934, and over the years the story and pictures have often appeared in the paper.

However, I have never seen a picture such as this, showing the film actually being made, with the cameras etc. shooting the scene.

I has been sent to me by Mr Arthur Orrell, of Auberson Road, Great Lever, Bolton, who took it himself.

It shows in the background the Waters Meeting Bleachworks, and they stood where The Valley entertainment complex is now situated. I like the wording on the camera van; "Gracie Fields. Associated Taking Pictures."

Among those following Gracie along the road were workers from the nearby Union Mills.

The other picture is another view of the bleachworks over the trees in the background is where Crompton Way now runs, and you may even be able to see standing out from them the house Watermillock, which today, of course, is a restaurant.

Mr Orrell was brought up on Fairhaven Road, which overlooked the bleachworks, and his mother worked there in the early 1900s.