November 24-25

Scuffles broke out as up to 50 protesters from the North West Hunt Saboteurs gathered to protest at a meeting of the Yorkshire based group, Pennine Fox Hounds, at Wilcox Farm.

Members of the saboteur group said they were jostled and kicked as they attempted to prevent the hunt from taking place.

A vehicle was attacked, and had all its windows broken.

A man has been charged with criminal damage.

25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

November 25, 1977

RAIDERS who broke into Bolton Lads' Club last night left a £1,000 plus trail of wreckage - and a great deal of their own blood. The intruders got into the Bark Street premises by smashing a small window in the lavatory.

Once inside they went on an orgy of destruction, slashing the cloth of a recently bought £600 pool table, and wrecking a hired football game machine. They tore telephones from the wall, smashed doors and windows, and even killed three catfish by smashing the aquarium in which they had lived for seven years.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

November 24, 1952

BOLTON'S first snow of the winter fell during last night, and this morning covered the ground to a depth of half to three-quarters of an inch.

BOLTON may soon have another weather observatory, in addition to that that Queen's Park, which is in a sheltered part, and apt to give a false impression. In the recent gales, for instance when much damage was done in Bolton, the observatory recorded a wind of only 32mph. A new observatory will be in a more exposed position.

100 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

November 24, 1902

"NO professional club can exist without public support; it can only get that support by giving spectators a sight of the best players."

This is an extract from an article entitled "Football: The Game and the Business" in the new monthly "The World's Work".

If public support solely depended on a sight of the best players we are afraid few spectators would find their way to Burnden Park.

But perhaps lovers of the game take refuge in the thought that at least they will at least see good play by one side if not the other. Certain it is that just now the Wanderers are serving up a very inferior kind of entertainment.

Never was there such a doleful record as that possessed by Bolton Wanderers.

To enter into a dozen League engagements without once tasting the sweets of victory would have at the beginning of the season seemed an impossibility. But there's the fact, and the outlook of the club is almost without a ray of hope.