Striking royal blue brocade and bright gold thread. Bright as day and over 90 years old. Whatever kind of event ‘Bolton Civic Week’ was, it was worthy of creating something as beautiful as this. And it’s been well kept, for the colours to still be so bold today.

There’s not that much information about Bolton’s first civic week available, but this silent footage from the BFI certainly gets me mind wondering what they were up to.