From the Evening News, June 13, 1992 - MEMBERS of a Farnworth bowling club are enjoying a bonanza with the opening of a new £95,000 pavilion.

They had lobbied Bolton Council to refurbish the Doe Hey bowling clubhouse after vandalism which resulted in windows being boarded up. Now members have been bowled over by the new stylish pavilion, which is also open to regular domino players as well as the established bowling fraternity.

25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

June 13, 1977

MOTOR cycling specialist Doug Hacking took one of the top awards in the Veteran and Vintage Car Run from Manchester to Blackpool at the weekend. Doug's car, a 1920 Humber Drophead, won the Concours d'Elegance Trophy awarded by the Sunday Telegraph, and was the first car to arrive in Blackpool. Doug, of Poplar Farm, Wingates, was co-piloted by neighbour Keith Croston.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

June 13, 1952

MANY good teachers had been broken and good classes ruined by adherence to the "no discipline and free expressionist theory" in the classroom, Mr James Crooks, of Kirkudbright, told the Education Institute of Scotland in Edinburgh today. He said: "The decay of discipline at all levels of society today is the direct result of the woolly pseudo-intellectualism bereft of any moral dynamic, which has rotted the politics, art and education of our day.

"Where you have no discipline or slack discipline in a school, you have no real education. Make the going soft for the pupil and you produce the soft pupil. If you encourage the individual to do as he likes, you finally produce the mob, and the result is chaos."

100 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

June 13, 1902

AN exciting incident occurred in one of the police cells at the Town Hall this morning, a prisoner named James Thomas Greenhalgh (46), labourer, 34 Arden-st. making an attempt, it is alleged, to take his life. He had been before the Magistrates on a charge of assaulting his daughter and was remanded until tomorrow.

Shortly after ten o'clock this morning some prisoners were being placed in an adjoining cell, and Greenhalgh was discovered in an excited state on the side of his bed, with blood on his hands and clothing.

An examination showed that he had made a vigorous attempt to cut his throat with a piece of iron which he had evidently torn off one of his clogs.

PC Jolly informed fellow officers of the discovery, and the Fire Brigade Ambulance was telephoned for in order that the man might be removed to the Infirmary, it being feared he was in a dangerous state.

The blood-stained iron was taken from the cell, and with assistance, Greenhalgh was able to walk to the Police Office door to enter the ambulance, in which he was accompanied to the Infirmary by Detective-Sergeant Hart. Greenhalgh appeared to be in a very depressed condition, and was greatly alarmed when police entered his cell. His throat was severely cut, there being several jagged wounds on the left side.