Today's picture from our archives shows gunners of the 253 Field Regt RA, the Bolton Artillery, uploading an eight-ton cannon outside the Drill Hall’s Bradshawgate entrance in 1955. The cannon was from the Firwood Hall Hotel in Bolton, where it
Today's picture from our archives shows gunners of the 253 Field Regt RA, the Bolton Artillery, uploading an eight-ton cannon outside the Drill Hall's Bradshawgate entrance in 1955. The cannon was from the Firwood Hall Hotel in Bolton, where it had been rusting away for many years.
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