Bolton Born: From Sunday School to the Football League: The Beginnings of Bolton Wanderers Football Club
By Brian Belton
Bolton Wanderers is one of the great teams of English football. Set deeply in a working class community, it grew, like so many famous sides, out of the industrial landscape of Lancashire.
The club became home to some of the beautiful game’s immortals – the likes of Nat Lofthouse, Eddie Hopkinson and Ted Vizard all played for Bolton – and chalked up four victories in the FA Cup.
Over more than a century, Bolton Wanderers have inspired the loyalty of hundreds of thousands of fans.
But where did the club start? And how did it emerge from dozens of local sides to become one of the major forces of the football league?
‘Bolton Born’ traces the progress of the Wanderers from a Sunday school team playing on a green space adjacent to a cemetery to the team’s inaugural League season.
It is a book that no Bolton fan or football aficionado, no matter what their colours, will want to be without.
Brian Belton is a lifelong football fan, and the author of numerous histories of the sport’s early years.
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