10 years ago from the Evening News March 10, 1995: Bolton Council bosses are pleading with bereaved relatives to remove "unauthorised" items from graves.

In recent years increasing numbers of families have been ignoring council regulations in certain parts of cemeteries which prohibit anything but a lawned area and a vase of flowers in front of headstones.

The problem has become so troublesome for cemetery workers trying to keep the borough's graves neat and tidy that a "softly softly" crackdown is being introduced.

25 years ago from the Evening News March 10, 1980

A special police operation stopped Mods and Rockers violence in Bolton on Saturday.

The town's shopping precinct has become a gathering place for the two factions - who dress and act like their predecessors of the 1960s - and during the past few weekends police have arrested a number of youths.

But on Saturday they stopped the trouble before it started by breaking up the gangs and keeping them moving.

50 years ago from the Evening News March 10, 1955

DE HAVILLAND Propellers Ltd, Lostock, is now, in spite of subsidiary developments at Farnworth, probably the largest single employer of industrial labour in Bolton.

What is not, perhaps, generally realised is that the propeller works is expanding and is taking over considerable floor space previously occupied by the De Havilland Engine Company, all of whose Lostock employees have been absorbed by the propeller company.

The expansion will inevitably mean a demand for an increased labour force, although recruitment may be expected to be gradual and spread over a long period.

AN excess of expenditure over income of £131 is shown in the annual report of the Bolton Hostel for Women for the year ending December 31, 1954.

The number of permanent residents during the year was 26; 52 people stayed less than a week and 22 were night calls. The Hostel, which is non-denominational, cares for people who have no home of their own and for others coming to Bolton for various reasons such as visiting relatives, taking up a new job, on holiday or who have missed their last bus or train to other towns.

100 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News

March 10, 1905

UPON the application of Mr J. Hilton (school inspector) at the Juvenile Court yesterday, John Lonsdale, the 12-year-old illegitimate son of John Thos. Clayton, labourer, Ann Street, off Turton Street, was committed to an Industrial School until 16 years of age.

From evidence called by Mr F. W. Brockbank it seemed that the boy stole and sold his mother's skirt for threepence.