From the Evening News, March 22, 1992 - BOLTON Wanderers' skipper Phil Brown was supported by pupils from Beaumont CP School, Ladybridge, when he took part in the "Nationwide Football Against MS" charity walk.

BUSES have been stopped from travelling along Glengarth Drive, Lostock, between 8.30am and 9.05am, and 3.15pm and 3.45pm, following complaints from local people about traffic congestion, particularly at arrival and departure times at Lostock County Primary School.

25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, March 22, 1977

WANDERERS' centre half Paul Jones and Bolton-born striker Paul Mariner, of Ipswich Town, hit the international scene today when they were named in the England squad for the game against Luxembourg at Wembley next week.

THE landlord of the Church Inn, Whitefield, who lost an Equal Opportunities case after a woman took him to court for refusing to serve her with a pint has hit back - by banning the woman, Dianne Williams, her friend Jane McIvor who was also refused a pint, plus members of the EOC and the Women's Lib movement. He said that following the case he would serve other women with pints, but make them feel uncomfortable. "I will point out that if they are not already fat and ugly, it will make them fat and ugly."

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, March 22, 1952

DESPITE a Ministry of Housing and Local Government warning that steel permits might not be granted within the next few months, Bolton Parks Committee decided yesterday that the building of Bolton's crematorium at Overdale, Chorley New-rd., should go ahead. Mr D.M. McKellen, Borough Engineer, told the Committee that three months' building work could go on before the steel was needed. About 11 tons would be required. The Committee decided that the chairman, Ald Sykes, should be invited to lay the foundation stone.

100 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, March 22, 1902

WE are still without that ideal city alike for manufacturing and residential purposes after which reformers have sighed, and for which the Garden City Association is steadily working. But a paper read tonight, says a London correspondent, before the Architectural Association, shows that not only Mr George Cadbury, at Bourneville, but another trading firm has come rather near to accomplishing the object aimed at.

The paper was by Mr W.H. Lever, and was entitled "The buildings erected at Port Sunlight and Thornton Hough". It described very fully the steps which the small soap manufactury at Warrington developed into the gigantic works we know. The way in which building cost has altered is shown by the fact that the cottage which could be built in 1898 for £200 today costs £330.

Mr Lever suggests that land should be made cheaper. The present Building Act allows 45 cottages to be built to the acre. Mr Lever would restrict the number to 12. The next step, he says, is to reduce the cost of building, and he knows of "no greater service the architects of the country could perform during the new century than the designing of economical cottages and small houses, guided only by the wants of the age of economical, sanitary, healthy houses to endure for fifty or sixty years alone."