From the Evening News, July 27, 1992 - HORWICH councillors have thrown out a bid to open an amusement arcade in the town following opposition from local traders.

Planners received eight letters of objection to the plan to convert the ground floor of a house on Winter Hey Lane into an arcade with fruit machines and leisure games. One of the reasons for turning down the plan was because of the effects it could have on the town's youth by encouraging them to gamble.

25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

July 27, 1977

TWO bank notes with a total value of just 25 shillings are worth £1,400 to Bolton coin dealer Brian Dawson. That is the amount Mr Dawson, aged 43, of St Helens Road, paid for the two notes at a London auction. One of the notes is a first world war £1 note overprinted with the words "120 piastres" which Mr Dawson bought for £750. The second, a 1919 five shilling (25p) note, which cost Mr Dawson £650, never came into official use.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

July 26, 1952

WHILE Boltonians are enjoying the best weather of the year, the footballers are preparing for the winter season, and local aspirants to fame will show their skill to the Bolton Wanderers' selectors next week and the week after, in a series of six trial games.

These trial games are usually held on the Bromwich-st. Police sports ground, but this is no longer considered by the Wanderers a suitable playing area on which to assess, in one game, a players' ability. Permission has been granted by Bolton Parks Committee for trial games on July 28th and 31st, and August 2nd, 5th, 7th and 9th, to be played at Barlow Park.

100 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

July 26, 1902

MATCHES were first invented about the year 1827. Before that time the only way of getting light was by flint and steel. In that year Mr Robert Gibbs, of Aylesbury, brought home from London a box of lucifer matches, and taking it to his mother's drawing room, he struck it, and to her surprise it gave out a brilliant flame! "Now," he said, "you may throw away your tinder box, for these new-fashioned matches can be bought in London. A box of 12 costs only sixpence."

"No," answered Mrs Gibbs firmly. "no matches in my home. Matches that light by themselves will not do for me. Some night we should all be burned to death in our beds."