Ian Robinson - The Town That Vanished: "The Rise and Fall of The Town That Vanished, Bolton Lancashire's Biggest Mill Town” In 1937

Ian has taught history in several secondary schools throughout a forty year career in education. He has a passion for the history of his home town, Bolton, where he has lived all his life. Inspired by the story of his mother's life, Ian's first book, "The Town that Vanished", was launched with a talk at Bolton Library in December, 2018. Taking Mass Observation's ground breaking study of Bolton between 1937 and 1940, as its starting point, the book examines what this important mill town once was, and just as compelling, what it has become. Ian has been so pleased at the response to his first book, that he has now begun work on a second book which will look at the history of Bolton's people through ten milestone days, a project he hopes to complete over the next two years.