Horwich is finally set to get a war memorial as a tribute to the dead of the Second World War. And the 123 names of Horwich Servicemen killed in the war are to be published to give people who know of any more local war heroes a last chance to come forward. The names will be displayed on a wall hanging designed by Bolton calligrapher Mary Shuttleworth, the former head of art at Bolton School.

ELEVEN American Civil War weapons -- one of which can kill at a distance of 800 yards -- have been stolen in a break-in at a Bolton home. The burglars ransacked the Astley Bridge home of Peter Smith, founder and chairman of the American Civil War Society, while he was on a three-week holiday touring Civil War battlefields in the United States.

25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

June 3, 1977

THE biggest flag in Bolton will be on display at the Jubilee party in Delamere Street, next week. For Les and Marilyn Knowles have converted their yellow-painted terraced home at Number 12 into a 20 foot square house-sized Union flag, with red, white and blue stripes from the roof to the cobblestones. Marilyn said: "The kids think it is great, but reactions from the neighbours have been a bit mixed."

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

June 3, 1952

TWO 13-years-old Bolton boys are not likely to forget their Whit Monday cycle ride to Southport. The boys, Anthony Regan, 7 Claughton-st., and Bernard Garner, 4 Rothwell-st. arrived safely at Southport and in the afternoon decided to walk across the sands to Blackpool, not realising that between them and their goal lay the estuary of the River Ribble.

They soon found themselves surrounded by the incoming tide and cut off from the mainland. They made for the highest point, and tied their cycles to the standard of a navigation lamp marking the channel. As the tide rose and their cycles became submerged, the boys climbed the standard and were marooned for an hour until they were rescued by a Preston man who had been fishing in his boat off Lytham, who also rescued the cycles. They were taken up the river to Preston dock, and a van driver gave them a lift back to Bolton. Both were back at school today.

100 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

June 3, 1902

THE Boer forces have surrendered and the war in South Africa is over. Among the terms of peace, the Burghers are to lay down their arms, exiled prisoners will return, and the Dutch language will be permitted in schools and Law Courts.

Without in any way erring on the side of excess, the crowds in the streets in the centre of Bolton gave themselves up to a species of demonstrative delight which reminds one of Mafeking night. It had been stated that the Town Hall would be illuminated, and the crowds converged to Victoria Square and the chief streets adjacent.

The Town Hall decorations were, of course, nothing like what they will be at the approaching Coronation jubilations, but, considering the short time there had been for the preparations for the display, it was an effective show of what can be done by electric light.

In the centre of the Hall the word "Peace" shone out in brilliant electric splendour, while the contour of the upper part of the Hall was outlined in jets.

The news of the conclusion of the war and the settlement of peace terms has caused great satisfaction in trade circles in Bolton, and everyone is expecting that the result will be a general improvement in trade.