...although this isn't the actual place, it will certainly do in principle. The murky atmosphere is certainly right, as is the oppressive gloom of the industrial landscape* (and this background!).
Most of the old cotton mills, the weaving sheds and the tall factory chimneys are now gone.
So has most of the tuberculosis, rickets, whooping cough and so on! That's the trouble with nostalgia; only the good stuff is wistfully remembered! If ever you get a tiresome old relative harping back to the good old days and how 'people used to help each other out more', just counter with "So how did you used to prefer your steaks?" or maybe "When you were a child, did you prefer bananas to pineapples?" I kid you not, my mum never saw either until she was a teenager!
For a more up-to-date view of a typical industrial town check out this view towards Bolton town centre from the computer room of my old college!
* A section from Industrial Landscape, by L S Lowry, 1955.