Bolton Market Hall

[1] Bolton Market Hall was designed by architect G. T. Robinson,[2] and opened on 19 December 1855.

To complement the produce stalls and boost custom, a fish market was built next to it which opened in 1865 at a cost of £30000.

In 1938 the interior layout changed with roofed stalls in tightly packed islands replacing the long rows of stalls and in 1982 a competition brief to redevelop the site immediately to the north of the market hall into a shopping centre was won by Chapman Taylor Partners.

The hall was refurbished in the 1980s to become the Market Place Shopping Centre and was opened in 1988 by Queen Elizabeth II.

[2] In 2007 Warner Estates commissioned van Heyningen and Haward Architects to restore the building's original features and modernise it to 20th century standards.