Audio Walking Tour: Bolton Cinemas of the 1930s

Please join us on our walking tour around Bolton. Led by film historian Professor Annette Kuhn and featuring interviews with cinemagoers from the period, we explore the sites of some of most popular cinema in the 1930s. The tour can either be followed on site or at home using the accompanying audio file and map.

Audio tour (sound file)
Audio Tour (accompanying leaflet with map)

Credits

Sound Design and Post Production
Suzy Angus

Script and Presentation
Professor Annette Kuhn

Interviewer
Valentina Bold

Producer
Sarah Neely

Leaflet Design
Jamie Terrill

Audio Contributors

“Horror Films”
Dorris Braithwaite
Vera Entwistle
Kath Browne

“Bughouses and Fleapits”
Dorris Braithwaite
Vera Entwistle
Kath Brown
Ada Bellis
Bert Partington
Lois Basnett
Harry Ackers

“Penny Rush and Matinees”
Freda McFarland
Ada Bellis
Bert Partington
Lois Basnett
Harry Ackers

“Courting and In the Back Row”
Freda McFarland
Ada Bellis
Bert Partington
Lois Basnett
Harry Ackers

“Gracie Fields”
Dorris Braithwaite
Vera Entwistle
Kath Browne

“Cinema Memories”
John Cooper