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Next, The Market Place, Bolton
Chain clothes shop
Great scope for imagining who buys what for what reason. All the colours, fabrics - the names of fabrics, too.
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Friday 18th May 2012 10:52 am

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Hays Travel

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Hays Travel, St. Andrews Court, Bolton
Hays Travel is the UK's largest independently owned travel agent.
Take your words on a journey.
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Thursday 17th May 2012 4:09 pm

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Omega Collectables

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Omega Collectables, St Andrews Court, Bolton
Comic book shop. It comes highly recommended for collectors of Star Trek, Dr Who and Star Wars comics.
Superheroes of poetry?
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Thursday 17th May 2012 4:06 pm

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Stitches of Bolton

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Stitches of Bolton, St Andrews Court
Clothing repairs and alterations. Making do and mending. So many stories. How many times has this been mended? Why can't she bring herself to throw it away? What is so urgent about getting this button sewn on? Where is she going in that outfit, and why is she having it reduced in size?
Colours of cottons, zips, fabrics. The repair that was never picked up...

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Thursday 17th May 2012 3:59 pm

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The Courtyard Jewellers

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The Courtyard Jewellers, 3 St. Andrews Court Town Centre, Bolton BL1 1LD
New and secondhand jewellers, family firm.
Baubles, bangles, bright shiny poems about where diamonds come from, who buys them. the hopes and dreams of wedding rings...
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Thursday 17th May 2012 3:56 pm

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Babers Bladez

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Babers Bladez
St. Andrew's Court, Bolton
Hairdressers
Poems about the conversations between hairdresser and client? About the transformations? What happens to all that hair they cut off?
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Thursday 17th May 2012 3:52 pm

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Lizzie Mars

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Lizzie Mars, St Andrew's Court, Bolton
Florist, gifts, cards, vintage homeware.
Why do we give gifts, agonising over their appropriateness, their cost, how we might be perceived by the recipient?
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Thursday 17th May 2012 3:46 pm

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Booth's Music Shop

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Booth's Music Shop, 17 Churchgate Bolton, Lancashire BL1 1HU
A real old-fashioned shop in the oldest bit of Bolton town centre. The world's oldest music shop, it is claimed, having opened only 16 years after the Battle of Waterloo. An Aladdin's cave of musical instruments, sheet music, tutors, accessories, etc: banjoes, guitars, fiddles, whistles, percussion instruments, harmonicas,...

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Thursday 17th May 2012 3:43 pm

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Amore

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AMORE
12 Corporation St. Bolton
Independent family-run furniture store. If beds, sofas or chairs could talk; if tables could eavesdrop on tea-time conversations...
They specialise in fairly showy furniture with much chrome and diamanté - that's amoré, as Dean Martin said. Italian for love.
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Thursday 17th May 2012 3:35 pm

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Costa Coffee

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Costa Coffee
Italian style coffee bar
34-36 Deansgate
Bolton
Huge scope for writing about the people who pass through or linger in here. Or about the view from the window. Who is that guy who has the statue? What about the two holding hands, etc.
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Thursday 17th May 2012 3:27 pm

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Mea Fashion

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Mea Fashion, 13 St. Andrews Court Town Centre, Bolton BL1 1LD
Women's designer clothes, shoes, belts, accessories. Fabrics, feeling, looking our best. special occasions.
Mannequins swathed in silk, coddled in cotton - OK, I'll belt up.
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Thursday 17th May 2012 3:23 pm

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Greenhalgh

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Greenhalgh
Crompton Place Shopping Centre, Bolton
Bakers of bread, cakes, pies. Makers of sandwiches. Potato cakes, drizzled with butter. Mmm.
Bread, the staff of life. Biscuits, the stuff of, er, scary characters (see photo).
Bake up a poem for this noble shop that feeds the passing population.
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Thursday 17th May 2012 3:18 pm

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Card and Party Centre

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Card and Party Centre, Crompton Place Shopping Centre, Bolton
Greetings cards, wrapping, balloons, etc. How about a poem based on lines from classic greetings cards, for example. Or what new type of greeting card would you introduce?
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Thursday 17th May 2012 3:16 pm

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Beaverbrooks

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Beaverbrooks, Crompton Place Shopping Centre, Bolton
Jewellers.
Sparkly stuff for special occasions like weddings, engagements, etc. Rings are often emotive items, reminders of those who have passed away, or got away before the wedding.
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Thursday 17th May 2012 3:13 pm

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Subway

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Subway, 46A Newport Street, Bolton
Sellers of sandwiches, coffee and salads.
Everyone has to eat. If music be the food of love, perhaps poetry is food for the soul. Be inspired: who are these people teh staff see for a few seconds at a time, coming and going, in and out, to where? from where?
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Thursday 17th May 2012 3:08 pm

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Greggs

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Greggs
7 Newport Street
Town Centre, Bolton
Well-known chain of bakery shops, made famous recently for having VAT put on pasties, and Ed Millband and Ed Balls ostentatiously being photographed munching one each outside one of the shops.
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Thursday 17th May 2012 3:05 pm

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Ernest Jones

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Ernest Jones
18 Hotel street
Bolton
BL1 1DA
Jewellery, watches, gifts.
A chance to write something that shines, sparkles or ticks away the minutes and the hours. What do the jewels think as they look at people staring at them an pointing thorugh the window?
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Thursday 17th May 2012 3:01 pm

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Barnardos

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Barnardos
49 Newport Street
Town Centre, Bolton
Lots of scope to look at the donated goods and write about the people who donated them, perhaps the links to the ones helped by the charity. Or think about the people who spend their time in there, the volunteers. What if the goods could talk, what would they tell us?
Talking of the volunteers, two of them are poets themselves, Angie and Dani...

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Thursday 17th May 2012 2:54 pm

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Cancer Research charity shop

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Cancer Research charity shop
6 Newport St., Bolton
Lots of scope to look at the donated goods and write about the people who donated them, perhaps the links to the ones helped by the charity. Or think about the people who spend their time in there, the volunteers. What if the goods could talk, what would they tell us?
A lot of stuff sold in charity shops comes from house clearance after someone...

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Thursday 17th May 2012 2:53 pm

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Ryman

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Ryman
15-19 Newport St., Bolton
Stationery Store: write about things to write with, on and in; things to organise your life and work, where does all that paper come from? Who still buys paperclips?
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Thursday 17th May 2012 2:46 pm

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Milkshake

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Milkshake
26 Corporation St, Bolton
A milkshake bar where they shake milk, and lots of other stuff.
Read a full article in Bolton News
Shake those words and stanzas.
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Thursday 17th May 2012 2:43 pm

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Jessops

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Jessops
Photographic shop
Show map of 34 Newport Street, Town Centre, Bolton BL1 1NB
Photographs have long been stimulus for poetry, often used in creative writing workshops. Once we all trooped off ot the photo shop to get our negatives and prints, quite happy to wait until they were developed. Now, it's all digital, and we can do so much with them, share them via internet, mobile phones (...

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Thursday 17th May 2012 2:36 pm

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The Market Place
Town Centre, Bolton
Clothes chainstore

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Thursday 17th May 2012 2:32 pm

Phones 4 U

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Phones 4 U
64-66 Deansgate
Bolton
Mobile phone shop. Wow, what scope here for poems about the conversations people have, in what circumstances? Declarations of love, difficult news, reassurance, photo of the new baby, those 9/11 last phone calls...
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Thursday 17th May 2012 2:30 pm

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HMV

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HMV
3/5 Exchange Street
Bolton, Lancashire
01204 524641
Sell music and film media such as CD's, DVDs etc. Music, films, all those characters and stories in shiny plastic boxes, all those lives, tragedies, triumphs, disasters and daftnesses.
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Thursday 17th May 2012 2:27 pm

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The Work Shop

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The Work Shop

39 Newport Street
Bolton, BL1 1NE

United Kingdom
Phone: 01204 526040

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Provides local employment information and advice for those seeking work or training: help with your CV, honing your interview skills and offer support to suit your individual needs such as confidence and motivation..
You can register with The work shop if you are unemploy...

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Thursday 17th May 2012 2:24 pm

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PDSA Charity Shop

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Bolton PDSA Charity Shop
44 Newport Street
Bolton
Greater Manchester
BL1 1NB
PDSA’s charity shops sell a range of good quality clean donated clothes, kitchen equipment, toys, books, vinyl, CD's and DVD's to help raise money to treat the thousands of sick and injured pets their vets see each day.
Animal lovers, post your poems.
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Thursday 17th May 2012 2:20 pm

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The Magic Tree

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The Magic Tree, St Andrew's Court, Bolton BL1 1LD
Quirky toys and gifts different from chain stores. Runs workshops for toddlers with things like craft, circus skills, pottery, reading workshops, and recycling junk to make toys.
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Thursday 17th May 2012 2:13 pm

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Waterstones

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Waterstones, 34-36 Deansgate. Bolton BL1 1BL
Famous book store. Hopefully you shouldn't need any more description. Lots of scope here for things to write about. About the shop, the staff the life of books...
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Thursday 17th May 2012 2:09 pm

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Olympus Fish and Chip restaurant

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Family-run, award-winning Olympus Fish and Chip restaurant, 35-39 Gt. Moor St., Bolton BL1 1SW
Well, the name Olympus gives loads of opportunity for London 2012-based poems. And our noble fish and chips have been part of all our lives for so long. And what about the fish stocks dwindling? This is a huge place, too, with lots of different people from all walks of life.
And it's a posh fish an...

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Thursday 17th May 2012 12:31 pm

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Octagon Theatre

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The Octagon is a nationally-renowned theatre that has lots of accolades for its productions. Artistic Director David Thacker is famous for his productions of Arthur Miller's work, having worked with the late American playwright.
It also has a popular cafe by the booking office.
The bar there is a part of Write Out Loud's history, our having run irrregular highly-successful showcase poetr...

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Thursday 17th May 2012 12:27 pm

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Odessa Café and Salad Bar

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Odessa Café and Salad Bar
1 Bridgeman Buildings
Exchange Street
Bolton
BL1 1RS
video ad showing the interior
Great name, too. A port on the Black Sea in Ukraine. And, again, scope for people watching and speculating: what if...?
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Thursday 17th May 2012 12:22 pm

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Rhode Island Coffee

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This is the 12 Knowsley St., Bolton one.
Rhode Island Coffee
Here is a review in the Bolton News.
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Thursday 17th May 2012 12:13 pm

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Mr Simms Sweet Shop

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1-2 St. Andrews Court, Bolton
http://www.mrsimmsfranchise.co.uk/
An olde worlde sweet shop. One custumer wrote of it: It reminds me of the olden days and the sweet shop in Charles Dickens' novel the "Bleak House. What does it remind you of? Your childhood?
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Thursday 17th May 2012 12:06 pm

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Carbon Bar

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18, St. Andrews Court, Bolton , BL1 1LD
A bar that has undergone transformation recently - caterpillar to butterfly, it says here.
http://www.carbonbars.co.uk/
Of all the bars in all the world, she had to walk into this one.
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Thursday 17th May 2012 11:56 am

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Ye Olde Pastie Shoppe

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Ye Olde Pastie Shoppe, 31 Churchgate, Bolton BL1 1HU
The popular olde worlde pasty shop in an historic part of Bolton, near the spot where Lord Derby was executed as a traitor and his part in the Bolton Massacre. Not sure the pasty shop was there then though.
Food has long been a source of inspiration for poets. Recent VAT changes and the politics of pasties might also yieid interesting verses....

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Thursday 17th May 2012 11:35 am

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Carrs Pasties

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Carrs Pasties, The Corner Shop, Ashburner St. BL3 1TQ
Pasties, pies and sausage roll shop. Pastry, flour, ovens, fillings, what can you buy with your shillings?
Details of the company and shop, including map.
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Thursday 17th May 2012 11:08 am

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St. Andrew's Court

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St Andrew’s Court is a small renovated shopping precinct in an old part of Bolton town centre. It contains several small independent shops.
Links, some with photos
link 1
Article
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link 4
link 5
You can write about the precinct and/or individual shops within it. some of the links might help you think about the precinct's story, for example.
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Thursday 17th May 2012 10:55 am

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