From the Evening News, May 9, 1992 - ANGRY publicans claim they are being forced out of their pubs because of a huge rise in the cost of running them.

And their fury is aimed at government legislations which they say is responsible for the breweries having to introduce the costly measures. One landlord who has pulled pints in a Kearsley pub for more than 30 years is now preparing for his final few weeks behind the bar before he takes early retirement.

Eddie Tickle has worked as landlord of the Clockface in Old Hall Street since 1961. But on June 17 he will call time on his career as opposed to changing his tenancy for a new 10 year lease on the premises. He claims he is one of many landlords being asked to transfer their rent agreements into new style leases as brewers are forced to shed pubs as part of the monopolies legislation, and that he simply cannot afford to buy a lease on his pub.

25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

May 10, 1977

ABOUT 1,500 clothing workers at Bolton, Warrington, Leeds and Walkden are due to lose their jobs in August. The shock announcement made today by the Burton group, Britain's largest multiple tailors, stunned workers and union representatives. At Warrington, the whole factory is to close, putting 650 people, mainly women, out of work. A warehouse at Burton's department in Halliwell Road, Bolton, is to close with a loss of 20 jobs, and a Walkden department handling bespoke alterations is to be axed with a loss of a further 30 jobs. The biggest cuts are at Leeds.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

May 10, 1952

WHEN the extension scheme to the Pack Horse Hotel, Bradshawgate, Bolton, is completed, the building will contain 43 bedrooms. That day will not arrive just yet, however.

The next stage in the scheme will be the completion in a few weeks of the new building in Nelson-sq. After that will come the demolition of the old property, which used to accommodate a hairdresser's shop, and the joining together of the new building and the original hotel. The present licence allows the builders to go no further than the completion of the new building, but the final application for the licence to join together the whole hotel is in hand. The new hotel will be worthy of a town of the size and importance of Bolton.

100 YEARS AGO

From the Ev+++ening News,

May 10, 1902

THE inmates of Scarborough Workhouse appear to be a blase lot. When the question of celebrating the Coronation was brought up at a meeting of the Guardians, it was stated that the paupers were tired of treats. Someone suggested the presentation of a new shilling to each pauper as an alternative. A Mr. Larkin, however, not to belie his name, declared that there out to be a jovial time at the Workhouse on such an occasion. A committee has been appointed to solve the momentous problem of how to tickle the jaded palates of these Sybarites.

AT Barnet, Miss Clara Child, a lady sixty years of age, was summoned for persistently annoying a gentleman. Complainant during the last 15 years had received thousands of love letters from the lady. The Court bound defendant over in the sum of £10 to be of good behaviour for six months. As the lady persisted in her attentions after the Court, the gentleman escaped by a side door, but the lady followed, shouting, "Come back to me, my own, my only, or I'll die."