It only needs a gas works to occupy the bit of green field left in this picture to complete the "dark satanic mills" atmosphere in this once lovely little valley of the Bradshaw Brook, as it becomes the River Tonge, at Back-o'th'-Bank, Bolton', read the caption in September, 1947.
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