From the Evening News, June 17, 1992

COLIN Todd has finally teamed up with Bruce Rioch again to give Bolton Wanderers the "dream ticket" to what fans hope will be a bright new future. Todd, who quit as coach at Bradford City last week, becomes Rioch's right-hand man - a repeat of a partnership which took Middlesbrough from Third Division to First in successive seasons.

25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, June 18, 1977

BOLTON'S Jubilee celebrations reached fever pitch today with the town's biggest and most spectacular event in years. Thousands of people began lining the 1 mile route of the Silver Jubilee Carnival more than an hour before the big parade was due to move off from Burnden Park. Main roads through the town centre were sealed off until the parade passed, and many motorists found themselves trapped on car parks for up to two hours. Away from the town centre crush, huge crowds watched the procession all the way to the carnival ground at Walmsley's playing fields, Crompton Way.

Proceeds of the giant event, organised by the Bolton-le-Moors Round Table, in conjunction with Bolton Council, will go to local charities and the Queen's Silver Jubilee Appeal Fund.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, June 17, 1952

BOLTON Corporation has been strongly criticized by the Mersey River Board in a complaint about the samples of effluent taken from Hacken-lane Sewage Works in April and May. They say that the effluent discharged into the river is unsatisfactory and asks that steps be taken not only to improve the sewage works itself, but to bring the Board's views before the industrialists of the town. There are two firms which discharged strong effluent, it has been said - William Walker and Son, Ltd., the tanners, and the North-western Gas Board.

100 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, June 18, 1902

BY slow and painful degrees, an efficient tram service is being evolved in Bolton. The report for the year ending on March 31 last shows considerable progress in this direction - a progress of which tram users are fully conscious, and for which they are duly grateful. The worry caused by the relaying of tracks has of course been great, but the enormously increased comfort of travelling as each new length has been thrown open to traffic has been considerable compensation, though the slow progress of the work on some of the routes has been intensely irritating to say the least of it.

We are on the way to a really fine service of trams. Our new tracks are excellent, but why were they not laid down at the beginning of our career as municipal tram owners? Why were valuable time and money spent in attempts to adapt the unadaptable old horse car lines to the new condition of electric traction?