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Might be worth starting with a paragraph on the Bolton Borough Charter of 1838 (11th October 1838) which combined several separate local authorities, mainly Great Bolton and Little Bolton. Bolton was the second town after Devonport to be granted a Borough Charter under the Act of 1835 although the validity was not confirmed until the Act of 1842. --
jmb (
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00:34, 23 December 2008 (UTC)reply
Capitalisation?
Why has the page been renamed with "Mayor" written as "mayor"? Surely it is a title which is written with a capital letter? The official page confirms this on
Mayor - general information and
Previous Mayors of Bolton
I have brought this inline with the vast majority of pages on Wikipeidia, see
[1]. The BBC uses "the mayor of Bolton"
[2]. I cannot access the Bolton page (not through your link or through Google, no idea what's wrong). It's probably both a job and a title, but the job seems to me the more important aspect. When you discuss "a mayor of Bolton", you use the lowercase
[3].
Fram (
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12:16, 21 January 2009 (UTC)reply
It is a title not a job. I have no problem accessing the Bolton Council page, it does not use lower case "mayor" anywhere on the page. The only use with lower case is a reference to "male mayors" on another page.
Neither is a secondary source. Many sites will say things like "our Champions have arrived", but we will still use champions... The site is not very consequent either: is it "Councillors"
[4] or councillors
[5]? (Yes, now I can access the page, no idea what went wrong earlier). Anyway, the move is clearly contested, so I'll undo it.
Fram (
talk)
14:33, 21 January 2009 (UTC)reply