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With businesses across the borough preparing to re-open – a new animation from Oldham Council celebrates the past, present and future of the town centre.
It has been launched to mark the re-opening of businesses across the borough on Monday (April 12) and calls on residents to back local business by shopping local and shopping safe.
Inspired by Tommyfield Market trader Mark Crossley of Crossley’s Fish, Oldham Council has worked with Delph-based animation production company Periscope Studios to create the short film.
Mark, like many of our market traders, has a lifelong history of trading in the town, with the family business having been in Oldham for 31 years.
Professor Paul Salveson is a historian and writer and lives in Bolton. He is visiting professor in Worktown Studies at the University of Bolton and author of several books on Lancashire history including a biography of Allen Clarke and his latest production Moorlands, Memories and Reflections. He also owns The Bolton Bicycling Bookshop. How did Boltonians celebrate ‘New Year’ in times’ past? From local evidence, it was with great gusto! Writing in 1930, ‘Old Boltonian’ (one of Allen Clarke’s many pen-names) said that Bolton is “unique among Lancashire towns in the fact that it celebrates the advent of New Year by ceasing work and holding jolly carnival.” Just to make it totally clear, Bolton was like nowhere else.
BRADFORD residents have been urged to mark this year’s New Year celebrations at home and not to mix with others to limit the spread of Covid-19. The district is currently in the Very High (Tier 3) level of Government restrictions, but the emergence of a new, more infectious variant of Covid-19 makes the need to observe the current restrictions even more important to stay at home with your own household or support bubble. Bradford Council has organised a number of online activities to mark the New Year. These include: • City of Bradford Brass Band and BD1 Brass will play Hail Smiling Morn at 12 midday and A Starry Night at 9pm on the Council’s social media platforms