We’re asking readers to get in touch with their old copies of the paper and share the stories behind why they kept the edition.

Maybe you kept a copy of the newspaper from the day your child was born. Or perhaps you featured in a story we once ran and have kept a cutting of it ever since?

Do you have an old copy of the paper from a particularly memorable occasion – a Wanderers FA cup win or Royal visit for example?

During one-and-half centuries or printing, we’ve published thousands of photographs. Have you ever featured in one?

From Jack HOWARTH

What is your response?I can remember as a 9 year old lad in Bolton, the beginning of my "magic dates" and a kind of non- ending search for more. We didn't have books - or very few - so the daily delivery of the BEN must have meant quite a lot. There was a daily ? article called "Through Cottage Window", always in dialect - tha' nowse , like Halli'th'wood an' so on. This particular date was the twelfth of March 1945. My ' dialectician' simply introduced me to 12345. I have been fascinated ever since with the simple combinations which can be fiddled with. St Patrick's Day yesterday was perhaps a minor one 17 3 17. And so it goes on. On 23 4 56, I know that I was working at De Havilland's on my Business Course, after RAF National Service. I keep searching . Perhaps there are hundreds out there to be associated with an event in life. I can never forget the BEN for that one day.

From Dave Thomas

What is your response?Front page from 1959. Have lots more of these

Your pictures

Front page from 1959. Have lots more of these

From Dave Thomas

What is your response?Front page from 1969

Your pictures

Front page from 1969

From Dave Thomas

What is your response?Headline stories 1959/1969

Your pictures

Headline stories 1959/1969

Headline stories 1959/1969

Headline stories 1959/1969

Headline stories 1959/1969

We’d also like to hear your stories of what the paper means to you.

Via wedding congratulations and birthday wishes, we’ve helped share people’s happiest days, as well as giving readers the thrill of seeing their name in black and white. Have we ever featured you on our pages?

We also know that the walls of many-a-business in Bolton are adorned with framed pictures of the reports we’ve featured on our pages.

And it’s not uncommon to find food and drink reviews proudly pinned above pubs and restaurants in the region. Get in touch with your old reports.

Maybe you simply found an old copy of the Bolton News in the attic and enjoyed a nostalgic leaf through bygone times, intrigued about what was making the headlines from years past.

So if you’ve got an old newspaper cutting from the Bolton News, or an old edition of the paper, get in touch and share your stories.

Write to webdesk@theboltonnews.co.uk or use the ‘contribute to this article' tabs at the top and bottom of this page.