From the Evening News, March 21, 1992

A PILOT scheme which has kept a small number of Bolton bowling greens open during the winter, has become a victim of its own success. Warm weather has attracted so many bowlers to Moss Bank Park that players have found it difficult to get a game because it was attracting visitors from Bury, Wigan and Atherton.

25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

March 21, 1977

DETECTIVES are investigating a fire bomb attack on a Bolton restaurant early today as 15 customers were sitting down to a meal. The owner of the Paradise Restaurant in Chorley Old Road, Mr Bashir Munshi, said he was serving a customer near the door when a man walked past the entrance and threw a petrol bomb. There was a loud explosion and flames filled the entrance. A customer tackled the blaze and quickly put it out.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

March 20, 1952

PATRICK Donnellan, a young man from Howard-ave., Deane, Bolton, rising to his feet on a platform in the Co-op Small Hall, Bolton, last night, said: "You see before you three pioneers. We think there is room for another political party in this community. The other two pioneers on the platform were Arthur Taylor, also of Howard-ave., and James Lomax, Olive-st., Bolton. This meeting was an important one for the three young men. It was the first public meeting of the New Progressive Democrat party.

The party is entirely new. Its roots, however slender, have been planted in Bolton. A new party, with national aspirations, has been born in the home town. The three young men made this quite clear.

The expected only a handful of people at the meeting - and they got 13.

100 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

March 21, 1902

IN making an allowance of 5s from the Poor Box in favour of Elizabeth Ellen Chadwick, 21 Holden-st. this morning, the Deputy Mayor (Ald. Wm. Nicholson) who was accompanied on the Borough Bench by Messrs W. Knowles, A.H. Gill, and T. Wilkinson, drew attention to the fact that plenty of money was given away, but very little was put into the box.

It was only right that it should be known there was such a thing as a Poor Box. The beneficiare, it appeared, had summoned her husband, James Chadwick, 5 Back Punch-st., who did not appear, for the neglect of his family. He had been out of work for some time, and had given her no money with which to keep the house.

When she asked him for anything he told her she must work to maintain herself and the three children. Her husband was drinking almost every night, and through his laziness she had lost several homes. The furniture now in her house was her own; she had bought it out of her own scanty earnings, but she owed 17s for rent. - The Magistrates granted a separation order, calling upon defendant to pay his wife 8s per week.