Bolton Museum Archive
Several years ago a former member of Bolton Branch, Geoff Smith, passed on a number of items to the local history department of Bolton Museum. For your convenience, listed below are the items.
| Code: | ZZ/650 |
| Date: | 1894-1998 |
| Title: | Bells and Bell Ringers |
| Description: | Booklet, Register, visitor books, and other miscellaneous papers. * Initiated by the close down and transfer of the Bells of Holy Trinity Church Bolton to the Parish Church of Preston during 1997. |
| Code: | ZZ/650/1 |
| Date: | 1997 |
| Title: | Commemorative booklet |
| Description: | Hallowing of the Bells of the Parish Church of Preston on the 8th November 1997. Eight of these came from Holy Trinity Church Bolton. |
| Code: | ZZ/650/2 |
| Date: | 22nd April 1923 to 26th December 1937 |
| Title: | Register of Bell Ringers at Holy Trinity church showing names and addresses and recording attendance at services and practices. Commencing. |
| Description: | The leader was Henry William Jackson and the vicar George A Deacon. (The book is backed and 16cm square.) |
| Code: | ZZ/650/3 |
| Date: | 2nd January 1938 to February 1966 |
| Title: | Register of Bell Ringers at Holy Trinity church showing names and addresses and recording attendance at services and practices. |
| Description: | (The book is foolscap size and is backless.) |
| Code: | ZZ/650/4 |
| Date: | 11th November 1921 to the 6th of August 1967 |
| Title: | Ringing Room Visitors' Book |
| Description: | Which in addition to visitors contains a diary of events related to ringing peals and quarter peals. (The book is 16cm square and about 1/4 of the book is used) |
| Code: | ZZ/650/5 |
| Date: | 6th October 1951 to 21st March 1965 |
| Title: | An additional Visitors' book |
| Description: | (Foolscap size but only 3 pages are used the rest are blank) |
| Code: | ZZ/650/6 |
| Date: | c1926 |
| Title: | Loose papers |
| Description: | Include the following: Two old photographs and a newspaper cutting. a. A September 1926 group outside Holy Trinity Church b. Hand bells being rung over a grave c. The cutting is of a group containing 80 years old bell ringer Henry William Jackson. All seem to have Peter Crook, a frequently mentioned ringer, shown prominently. |
| Code: | ZZ/650/7 |
| Date: | 1949-1955 |
| Title: | Receipts from meals on Ringers' Trips in 1949 and Travel leaflets from 1955. |
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| Code: | ZZ/650/8 |
| Date: | 17th May 1951 |
| Title: | Receipt for bell ropes from John Pritchard (Ropes) Ltd of Loughborough. |
| Description: | |
| Code: | ZZ/650/9 |
| Date: | n.d |
| Title: | Receipt and details of the gift of a carpet to Holy Trinity Chapel by Bell Ringers. |
| Description: | |
| Code: | ZZ/650/10 |
| Date: | 1964 |
| Title: | Proficiency Certificates of the Lancashire Association of Change Ringers |
| Description: | They are to Joseph E. Owen, Mrs Mary Kenyon and Everest Ford. They are signed by J Thornley Branch Secretary and J P Partington Ringing Secretary. |
| Code: | ZZ/650/11 |
| Date: | 1977-1995 |
| Title: | Annual Reports of the Lancashire Association of Change Ringers |
| Description: | For the years 1977, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1992, 1993, 1994 and 1995. |
| Code: | ZZ/650/12 |
| Date: | 1973-1980 |
| Title: | Magazines from Bolton Parish Church containing relevant Bell Ringing articles. July 1973, November 1973, July 1975 and March 1980. |
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| Code: | ZZ/650/13 |
| Date: | 1997-1998 |
| Title: | Copies of the newsletter 'The Bolton Bell' which is produced by the Bolton Branch of the Lancashire Association of Change Ringers. |
| Description: | These are for September 1997, October 1997, November 1997, December 1997, February 1998, March 1998 and April 1998. |
| Code: | ZZ/650/14 |
| Date: | 1916 |
| Title: | Extract from the 'Church Bells of Lancashire' Part II the Hundred of Salford By F H Cheetham published in Manchester by Richard Gill Tib Lane Cross Street. |
| Description: | Concerning the history and parish records concerning the bells of Bolton Parish Church and St George's Church Bolton. |
| Code: | ZZ/650/15 |
| Date: | n.d |
| Title: | Extract from The Northamptonshire Bellfounders particularly as regards the bellfounders who cast the bells in Bolton Parish Church. The Bagley family. |
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| Code: | ZZ/650/16 |
| Date: | 1972-1973 |
| Title: | Bolton Parish Church Magazines |
| Description: | Extracts from November 1972, May 1973, June 1973, July 1973 |
| Code: | ZZ/650/17 |
| Date: | 1991-1998 |
| Title: | Copies of the Newsletter 'The Bolton Bell' produced by the Bolton branch of the Lancashire Association of Change Ringers. Incomplete |
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| Code: | ZZ/650/18 |
| Date: | 5th March 1910 |
| Title: | Copy of the service sheet for the dedication of the Bells at Tyldesley Parish Church on Saturday |
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| Code: | ZZ/650/19 |
| Date: | February 4th 1927 |
| Title: | Report from the Bolton Journal and Guardian of Friday concerning a Bell Ringing Record of 7 hours at Bolton Parish Church. |
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| Code: | ZZ/650/20 |
| Date: | n.d |
| Title: | Photo of Peter Crook Junior. |
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| Code: | ZZ/650/21 |
| Date: | n.d |
| Title: | Article by Geoff Smith on the Bells of Bolton Parish Church of 1894 |
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| Code: | ZZ/650/22 |
| Date: | 22nd March 1894 |
| Title: | Ringers Rules, Bolton Parish Church |
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