10 years ago from the Evening News March 16, 1995: BOLTON twins Oliver and Adam Smerecky are to play a starring role in the major new six-part TV series Missing Persons starring "Hyacinth Bucket" actress Patricia Routledge.

The cuddly twosome, aged just four months old, will become the missing person in one episode of the BBC drama, currently being filmed in and around Bolton.

BRITISH Aerospace workers expressed shock and dismay at the news that 570 jobs will be shed at the Lostock plant over the next two years - reducing the workforce to 370.

Twenty years ago 3,500 people worked there and it was Bolton's biggest private employer.

25 years age from the Evening News March 15, 1980

TROUBLE is brewing over a plan to turn a cosy village "local" into a smart restaurant.

Villagers at Edgworth claim that the tap room at the Spread Eagle pub in Turton Bottoms is a recognised centre of social activity.

They plan to dig in their heels if plans for the restaurant go ahead - by boycotting it.

CUSTOMERS of butcher Jack Howard were so sorry to hear that he was retiring this month that they clubbed together to buy him a silver-plated tankard to mark his 50 years in the trade in Vernon Street, Farnworth.

Mr Howard, who will be 65 on Tuesday, will shut his doors for the last time four days later and the future of the popular corner shop is uncertain.

50 years ago from the Evening News March 16, 1955

TOMORROW afternoon Oldhams Lane County Primary school, the sixth of its kind to be built in Bolton since the war, will be opened by Mr George Cansdale, well-known for his TV animal programmes.

The school, a one-form entry junior and infants' school, which will provide accommodation in its seven classrooms for 280 pupils, is situated near where Oldhams Farm, the home of Samuel Crompton, once stood.

MORECAMBE'S next Mayor will be Bolton-born Cllr Robert Allen, a private hotelier.

He went to Morecambe for his honeymoon 26 years ago and has lived there since.

His wife, Mrs Elsie Ellen, who is also a native of Bolton, will be Mayoress.

100 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News

March 16, 1905

HOWEVER much one might have been depressed at the many vacant places in the Victoria Hall last evening, the programme which the Bolton Philharmonic Society offered to their patrons at this, the third and last of their season's concerts, in a large measure compensated for it.

We are unwilling to believe that the sparse attendance was a sign of decaying interest in the present musical season, or that our townspeople fail to appreciate the masterpieces which Wagner, Haydn, Mendlessohn etc have left behind, but certainly those who stayed away last night were unfortunate in losing the enjoyment of a musical evening which very fittingly brought to a close another successful season's work by Bolton's oldest musical society.