From the Evening News, August 10, 1904: THE inspection of the Bolton Road section of the Bury Corporation Tramways on behalf of the Board of Trade, was made this morning by Major E. Druitt, who expressed satisfaction with the line.

He fixed the speed for Bolton Street at ten miles, Bolton Road 12 miles and four miles round curves. At the request of the Cycle Touring Club, Major Druitt also inspected the lying of the setts alongside the rails and promised to report to the Board of Trade.

THE second of a series of addresses was given today at noon, at the Victoria Station, Manchester, to the railway men, by the Rev H. L. Marsh, Precentor of Manchester Cathedral and formerly of Bolton Parish Church. The rev gentleman's subject was "Evolution and the personality of man." The audience listened with great attention and at the close all joined heartily in singing the hymn, "Oh God our help in ages past."

From the Evening News, August 10, 1954: THE Royal Lancashire Show - the oldest of its kind in the country - can rarely have got off to a worse start than it did today in Blackpool. Heavy rain fell for several hours before the opening and turf which was yesterday green and firm had been turned into squelchy mud in places, making it a show for gumboots and wellingtons.

BY the middle of September Bolton will have two cinemas - the Lido, Bradshawgate, and the Palladium, Higher Bridge Street, showing CinemaScope films. These films have now been available for about 12 months but so far only the first of them, The Robe, has been shown in Bolton and that was at the Odeon.

From the Evening News, August 10, 1979: GRANADA TV went off the air indefinitely at 1.40pm today when the Manchester studio suspended its technicians in a shock move in the ITV pay dispute. A Granada spokesman said the men, members of the Association of Cinematograph, Television and Allied Technicians, were suspended for refusing to work the emergency national ITV schedule which was drawn up by the TV companies in the face of the technicians' action. Granada now joins five other regional ITV companies - Harlech, Ulster, Thames, Yorkshire and Grampian - in facing a weekend blackout.

ENGLAND soccer international Kevin Keegan, now playing for Hamburg, has become a pop star with 220,000 copies of his disc, "Head Over Heels in Love", sold so far in West Germany.

A "DOUBLE star night" at Breightmet Labour Club in Milnthorpe Road, Bolton, features American singer Solomon King and "comedy rock 'n' roll sensation" Ricky Livid (out of TV's 'The Comedians).

From the Evening News, August 10, 1994: BOLTON'S Book of Remembrance, listing the names of 1,500 local men and women killed in the Second World War, will be dedicated and presented to the town next Monday. The Bolton and District Combined Ex-Servicemen and Women's Association hopes as many relatives of those listed, and members of the public, will join them at the special service at Bolton Parish Church. The service, at which a new Standard for the association will also be dedicated, will follow the annual VJ parade at the war memorial in the Precinct.