A READER has asked if I know where "Old Acres" used to be. My old friend Denis O'Connor, of Forton Avenue, Breightmet, has come to the rescue.
He says that in the 1818 Bolton Directory it is referred to as "at the bottom of Bradshawgate", and it appears to have consisted of about 30 workers and an Independent Chapel.
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