Charmain

You might also want to check out Clive Leyland. Most of his songs are based around the Bolton area, eg

SCOUT ROAD
Clive Leyland

1.
What is there now where the forest stood? It stood so proud and tall.
It wasn't made of leaves and wood - those towers of brick could never fall.
Not so long ago you'd have hardly seen the factories for the smoke.
Now the demolition man has been and laid the chimneys low.

- REFRAIN -

Looking down from Scout Road, searching for a way back home again.

2.
The church clock stands without its hands, Trinity's an empty shell.
Sweet Green's now a barren land with no more tales to tell.
The ironworks' walls did lately fall to another superstore.
The loyal and the true are no use at all, no-one wants them any more.

- REPEAT REFRAIN (twice) -

- BREAK -

- REPEAT REFRAIN -

3.
The old pit-head's been left for dead, the winding gear has gone.
In Hulton Park down in the dark, the shafts don't see the sun.
The reason's plain it's greed and gain that left these scars to heal.
The old ones don't forget the pain their memories reveal.

- CODA -

But it's only now you can imagine the plough, you can see how the land's survived.
The rivers and the hills are with us still, smiling at our little lives.
It may take some time and some future wiser minds to take us back to the start.
Maybe they will find they need not be so blind, maybe they can leave the heart.

- REPEAT REFRAIN (twice) -


The Houghton Weavers have also written songs about Bolton (Howfen Fair, Howfen Wakes
The Pretoria Pit Disaster).