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Title
Market Cross
Date
1909
Medium
Dartmoor granite
Measurements
H 608 x W 304 x D 304 cm
Accession number
BL1_JB_S003
Work type
Cross
Owner
Bolton Council
Custodian
Bolton Council
Work status
extant
Unveiling date
August 1909
Access
at all times
Signature/marks description
Bradshaw & Gass F.R.I.B.A. Architects
Inscription description
inscription on plaque: THIS CROSS, SIMILAR TO ONE / WHICH STOOD ON THIS SPOT / FROM 1486 TO 1786, / WAS PRESENTED TO HIS / NATIVE TOWN BY / GEORGE HARWOOD / FOR SOME TIME / MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT / FOR BOLTON. / 1909.Plaque on north side: 1253.A.D. BOLTON A FREE BOROUGH BY CHARTER. / 1256. CHARTER FOR MARKET / BY HENRY III TO BODELTON. / 1337. FLEMISH CLOTHIERS SETTLED. / 1513. “LUSTY LADS FROM BOLTON-I’-TH’ / MOORS.” (BALLAD OF BATTLE OF FLODDEN FIELD.) / 1540. “BOLTON UPON MOOR STANDETH MOSTLY BY / COTTONS AND COARSE YARNS.” (LELAND.) / 1623. LECTURESHIP FOUNDED FOR SERMONS / AT CROSS. 1631. POPULATION 500. / 1641. GRAMMAR SCHOOL FOUNDED. Plaque on east side: 1643-4. DURING THE CIVIL WAR BOLTON BESIEGED THRICE / AND TAKEN ONCE WITH MUCH SLAUGHTER. / 1651. JAMES, SEVENTH EARL OF DERBY, / BEHEADED NEAR THIS SPOT / 1661. “BOWLTON HATH A MARKET ON MONDAYS / WHICH IS VERY GOOD FOR CLOTHING AND / PROVISIONS AND IS A PLACE OF GREAT / TRADE FOR FUSTIANS.” (BLOME’S BRITANNIA.”) / 1753. CROMPTON, INVENTOR OF THE SPINNING / MULE, THE FOUNDATION OF MODERN / COTTON INDUSTRY, BORN IN BOLTON. / 1760. ARKWRIGHT, FOUNDER OF THE COTTON FACTORY / SYSTEM, KEPT A BARBER’S SHOP IN BOLTON. / 1763. COTTON QUILTINGS & MUSLINS FIRST MADE IN BOLTON. plaque on south side: 1791. CANAL TO BOLTON OPENED. / 1828. FIRST RAILWAY FROM BOLTON OPENED. / 1832. FIRST PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION. / POPULATION 41,195. / 1838. CHARTER OF INCORPORATION. / 1842. PARLIAMENTARY ENQUIRY ABOUT EXTREME DISTRESS IN THE TOWN. / 1852. ADOPTION OF FREE LIBRARIES ACT. / 1861. POPULATION 70,396. / 1872. FIRST EXTENSION OF BOLTON. / 1877. FURTHER EXTENSION, POPULATION 106,214. / 1898. BOLTON AGAIN EXTENDED. / 1901. POPULATION 168,215.
