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Come with us on a journey across Bolton. The streets where you live, the parks and fields where you played, and the pubs and cafes you and your friends would drink in. Did you know that many of them hide a gruesome secret?
Discover how the peaceful quiet of the village of Belmont was shattered by the brutal murder of a schoolteacher; the Horwich man twice charged for the murder of his mistress; the poisoner from Barrow Bridge; the old soldier who slit a woman's throat close to Trinity Street railway station, and the traveller cruelly slain in the wilds of Winter Hill.
Learn also about the Bolton pub landlord who became the country's chief executioner, and whose last job was to hang one of his customers, and the Westhoughton wife murderer fortunate to be spared the gallows following his brutal crime.
Murder trails takes you on a journey through the ages. Using modern footage supplemented by old photographs, maps, drawings and the latest computer graphics we take the viewer on a thrilling tour across the town's dark side …
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