t'Top 10

[marshall_42]

As I mentioned on another post....I, being the best boyfriend in the world am taking my GF to a luxury hotel for a Valentines midweek break. The hotel is Deveres, Horwich Parkway

Anyway, as I am unlikely to have it all my way, I will no doublt get dragged around Manc shopping, and I would also like to explore Bolton, having only ever gone though on the train on the way to the bok. Therefore I set a challenge to all locals.....assemble the top 10 things to do/places to see in and around Bolton?!

Good luck.

[Batman]

go and look at the elephants in town

Olympic chippy

then go to the Bok

don't bother with town - it used to be alright, but that was a while back.

[TANGODANCER]

Like Batty said, the town centre has lost its character these days although the shopping isn't bad. This time of year site-seeing won't be too much fun but Smithills Hall is worth a look (make sure it's open first) , likewise Hall-ith-Wood. The museum and art gallery on the Town hall crescent will get you out of the rain for a couple of hours but Bolton's far better in the Summer. The Olympic fish and chip restaurant is well worth a visit (along Newport Street in the direction of the Town Hall) Fish, chips, peas and a steak pudding, two slices of bread and a pot of tea will set you well on your way.

[marshall_42]

Like Batty said, the town centre has lost its character these days although the shopping isn't bad. This time of year site-seeing won't be too much fun but Smithills Hall is worth a look (make sure it's open first) , likewise Hall-ith-Wood. The museum and art gallery on the Town hall crescent will get you out of the rain for a couple of hours but Bolton's far better in the Summer. The Olympic fish and chip restaurant is well worth a visit (along Newport Street in the direction of the Town Hall) Fish, chips, peas and a steak pudding, two slices of bread and a pot of tea will set you well on your way.

I'm there!

[TANGODANCER]

Like Batty said, the town centre has lost its character these days although the shopping isn't bad. This time of year site-seeing won't be too much fun but Smithills Hall is worth a look (make sure it's open first) , likewise Hall-ith-Wood. The museum and art gallery on the Town hall crescent will get you out of the rain for a couple of hours but Bolton's far better in the Summer. The Olympic fish and chip restaurant is well worth a visit (along Newport Street in the direction of the Town Hall) Fish, chips, peas and a steak pudding, two slices of bread and a pot of tea will set you well on your way.

I'm there!

Not your corner chip shop here. Excellent setting, waiter service, take your coat and pull a chair out for the missus and it's run by a Greek family. Nothing Greek about the fish and chips though, pure Lancashire quality.

[marshall_42]

Like Batty said, the town centre has lost its character these days although the shopping isn't bad. This time of year site-seeing won't be too much fun but Smithills Hall is worth a look (make sure it's open first) , likewise Hall-ith-Wood. The museum and art gallery on the Town hall crescent will get you out of the rain for a couple of hours but Bolton's far better in the Summer. The Olympic fish and chip restaurant is well worth a visit (along Newport Street in the direction of the Town Hall) Fish, chips, peas and a steak pudding, two slices of bread and a pot of tea will set you well on your way.

I'm there!

Not your corner chip shop here. Excellent setting, waiter service, take your coat and pull a chair out for the missus and it's run by a Greek family. Nothing Greek about the fish and chips though, pure Lancashire quality.

what a Valentines dinner!

[freeindeed]

Maybe a little energetic but i would reccomend going for a walk upto Rivington Pike. Great views of...err...The Bok

[Verbal]

^ Rivvy pike is a grreat walk if the weather is favourable.

[Batman]

Like Batty said, the town centre has lost its character these days although the shopping isn't bad. This time of year site-seeing won't be too much fun but Smithills Hall is worth a look (make sure it's open first) , likewise Hall-ith-Wood. The museum and art gallery on the Town hall crescent will get you out of the rain for a couple of hours but Bolton's far better in the Summer. The Olympic fish and chip restaurant is well worth a visit (along Newport Street in the direction of the Town Hall) Fish, chips, peas and a steak pudding, two slices of bread and a pot of tea will set you well on your way.

I'm there!

Not your corner chip shop here. Excellent setting, waiter service, take your coat and pull a chair out for the missus and it's run by a Greek family. Nothing Greek about the fish and chips though, pure Lancashire quality.

what a Valentines dinner!

The owner is dead scary, like the Soup Nazi from Seinfeld if anyone one here knows what I mean

[General Mannerheim]

1. Ye olde pastie shoppe!!!

[communistworkethic]

really spoil her, take her to the egyption collection at the museum and the aquarium

[James B]

it's olympus ffs

and yes, it's awesome

[Bruce Rioja]

Present yourself at Horwich Parkway Station and catch the train to Manchester is my advice.

[marshall_42]

Present yourself at Horwich Parkway Station and catch the train to Manchester is my advice.

That'll be a part of the plan for sure!

[davroduk]

Ahh Bolton.
A great place to come from.
Feckin terrible place to go to.

[Lord Kangana]

Its not what it used to be for pubs in Bolton (King Bill et al have gone) but...

You have to try Ye Olde Man and Scythe (even if its lost most of its charachter and the current incumbent is a t**t), The Sweet Green Tavern (near the railway station) and a visit to Bolton wouldn't be complete without a trip to The Howcroft (get a taxi - pity its not beer festival season, they have the biggest one in the British isles or something).

As the others already said,Ye Olde Pastie shoppe is a must, as is the Olympus (Bolton Legend/Landmark - know any other chippies where theres a queue everyday for a seat?).

And then walk it all off with a stroll over Rivington or Anglezarke.

Sod Manchester, its crammed full of wanabes in a wanabe city that wants to be(and thinks it is) as important as London.

And the Trafford Centre is soul crushing Americanized banality at its very worst:- AVOID

[TANGODANCER]

Ahh Bolton.
A great place to come from.
Feckin terrible place to go to.

That's a rare statement from somebody living in Hindley, the land Cain gave back to God.

Still got that fxxkings awful pink pub down there?

[finlayson]

1) visit the Museum. The second best Egyptian collection in the country, or so they say.
2) Sample a pint in Ye Olde Man and Scythe.
3) Get a Pastie from Ye Olde Pastie Shop.
4) Go on the Bank Top Tour.
5) Visit the Olympus Chippy.
6) Go on the Reebok tour.
7) Have a mooch up Rivington, it really is one of the most beautiful places in the country, right here on our doorstep.
After you have climbed to the Pike, head cross country to Winter Hill, see Scotch Mans Stump and see the memorial to the Winter Hill Air Disaster.
9) Visit Smithills hall and see a bit of our local history, see the footprint that fills with blood! Or go to Hall it' Wood, but its horrible round there.
10) Get a train to Manchester.

[Lord Kangana]

Forgot the Bank Top tour!

Brilliant, though you do need 12 of you (which M42's missus might not appreciate on a 'romantic break'!)

[Bruce Rioja]

1) visit the Museum. The second best Egyptian collection in the country, or so they say.

Nipped into the art gallery after a work-stuff shopping mission in Whitakers. Absolute bobbins at the moment. They've got the same old paintings that they've had out for the last seven or eight months, and then some photo's of various Welsh forest floors, which in reality aren't all that different from Boltonian forest floors.