IT was billed as Bolton’s first town centre subway aimed at making it safer for pedestrians.

The subway was carved out beneath Trinity Street but its progress was far from straightforward.

Work began in the late 1960s alongside bridge strengthening works but had to be halted to allow bodies to be exhumed from the burial ground at Holy Trinity Church.

Then the schemes was delayed further when the original main contractor ran into financial difficulties.

A series of ramps made it easier for pedestrians to use the subway which tunnelled under one of Bolton’s busiest road

But in August 1970, the subway was declared open by the then Mayor of Bolton, Dr John Monks.

The subway was just part of a major reconstruction around Trinity Street but for all the effort that went into creating it, the subway’s life was relatively short lived and there is no sign of it left today.