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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 The Bolton Evening News wrote in April 1977 that “every week the 470 workers turn 6,000 hairy, smelly hides into high-grade leathers for every purpose under the sun. Their products go to the ends of the earth for conversion into shoes, fashion wear, handbags, hats, brief cases, schoolbags.” Within less than five years, Walkers’ Tannery had closed and those workers – my dad amongst them – were redundant. Everyone brought up in Bolton prior to the 1980s will remember it for one thing – the smell. Curing leather was a very noxious business and if you worked in the limeyard – the biggest in the UK after it was modernised during the war - the smell would never leave you.
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Anna Joyce takes a deeper dive inside GunPlot, an eight part podcast series, in tandem with a 50-minute television documentary by RTÉ Factual, in what is set to be RTE s first bi-media project - listen to the first episode of GunPlot above.
The assasination of JFK, the moon landing, UFOs and the Irish Arms Crisis. If the last addition feels out of place then you need to brush up on your history, as the Irish Arms Crisis is arguably Ireland s most enduring conspiracy theory, shrouded in mystery, political deceit and fake news long before Trump.
Irish Press front page, May 1970