‘Backstreet Pantomime’ is a written piece by photographer and author, Julia Uttley, which was featured in the local creative anthology titled Bolton Observed. The piece centres around a creative description of one of her own photographs (featured below), captured on Back Poplar Avenue, Astley Bridge.

Julia Uttley is a Lancashire-born photographer based in Bolton, Greater Manchester, whose work heavily documents local life, the West Pennine Moors, and the region’s industrial heritage.