From the Evening News, July 23, 1904: TODAY witnesses the holding of the seventh annual show in connection with the Deane and District Agricultural and Horticultural Society and everything promises to make the exhibition in all respects quite equal if not better than any that have previously taken place.

The show field, which is attached to Got Green Farm, is a highly suitable site for such a function as a show, the outlook being very picturesque. The sky was somewhat threatening, but at intervals the sun made his appearance, and hopes ran high that towards noon he would gain the victory.

MR W. Rest, a clockmaker working in Regent Street, who obtained a decree nisi on the ground of his wife's misconduct, said that on one occasion he found 16 empty beer bottles and 20 pawn tickets in his wife's bed, and that she threw knives, forks and plates at him.

From the Evening News, July 24, 1954: THE Wanderers, now back on a full training schedule, have re-appointed Willie Moir to the first team captaincy with Malcolm Barrass as vice-captain. Moir succeeded Johnny Ball as captain halfway through the 1952-3 season and in his first "year of office" had the pleasure of leading his team on to Wembley for the Cup Final with Blackpool. The only previous Scottish captain at Burnden Park in post-war days is Jimmy Gillies, now performing the same role at Leicester.

BREIGHTMET County Primary School will be opened on October 6 by Mr N. R. Tempest, professor-elect of the William Roscoe chair of Education at Liverpool University. High Lawn County Primary School will be opened on October 27 by Mr C. H. Aslin, President of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

BURY has received a grant of £70 from the National Art Collection Fund towards the cost of £140 for the Epstein bust "The Young Bacchus," which was bought last month.

From the Evening News, July 24, 1979: MAJOR building schemes for hospitals at Bolton and Bury were announced today. The plans include a desperately-needed £8 million modernisation scheme for Bolton General Hospital and work to make Fairfield General the main Bury hospital at a cost of £7 million.

THE school bell will ring for the last time at Brownlow Fold High School on Friday. The 98-year-old school is being demolished to make way for a new £500,000 community school which will be the first of its kind in Bolton.

From the Evening News, July 23, 1994: SID Clemmett, the man who saved historic Bolton Clarion Cycling Club from extinction, has died at the age of 85. During the 1930s he helped build it into the biggest Clarion club in the land with nearly 250 riders turning out regularly on rides. Sid, of Victoria Grove, Bolton, became secretary again in the 1970s when the club was in the doldrums and, with the help of Halliwell man Denis Pye, returned it to its former glory.

THE construction of the new Westhoughton Parish Church has finally started. It began in the shadow of the old church tower, which was the only part of the historic building to survive the fierce blaze which broke out in November, 1990. The rebuilding was marked by a special ceremony on Thursday when the Archdeacon of Bolton, the Ven Lorys Davies, cut the first sod of earth on the site of the new chapel's altar.