Your favourite newspaper celebrates 140 years of continuous publication on Monday with a special 12-page commemorative supplement.

The supplement covers the first 20 years of the Bolton Evening News from 1867 to 1887 and is the first of 10 souvenir publications being produced this year.

Monday's 12 pages are packed with news stories and photographs of the time.

The Bolton Evening News, last year renamed The Bolton News, was the first halfpenny local evening paper in the country and our souvenir supplements will reveal how the newspaper covered local and national events through the years.

The second supplement will cover the years 1887 to 1907 and will be published on April 24.

The picture shown here was taken in 1853. It shows Arthur Bromiley, his wife who and his daughter Mary in the doorway of the Norris Porch of Hall i'th' Wood.

Arthur Bromiley was shown in records to have been a tenant farmer since the 1820s and to have kept cattle in the Great Hall, as was the custom of the time.

The Bromileys moved into the Hall sometime after Samuel Crompton, who invented the spinning mule, had left.

They lived there until the turn of the 20th Century.

More historic pictures will appear in Monday's supplement.

Make a date with YOUR local paper on Monday . . . and take a step back in time.