New pit head baths for Deane Colliery

25 YEARS AGO

ACTRESS Joyce Bate went a bit too far during rehearsals for a Bolton Christmas pantomime, Dick Whittington, and poor King Rat needed hospital treatment.

Little Joyce, who plays Dick in the family show due to be staged by Sweetloves Amateur Operatic Society next month was rehearsing a fight scene with King Rat - played by 13-stone lorry driver Bill Wainman.

She unleashed a karate chop after Bill urged her to "get stuck in". And Bill had to be treated in hospital for a fractured shoulder.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

November 5, 1951

SIR,- In a sweet shop on Saturday afternoon I was refused two bars of blended chocolate, displayed in the window, because I refused to buy, in addition, the equivalent in sweets.

It's not the first time this sort of thing has happened at this particular shop. If the chocolate is displayed, it should be sold to anyone who can produce the money and coupons, without insisting on a condition of sale. Yours, Nurse Hayes.

A START has been made on the provision of new pit-head baths for Deane Colliery, Bolton, and it is expected that they will be completed in a year's time. The baths will be of a special type, suitable for small collieries such as Deane, and will provide up-to-date bathing and dressing accommodation for all the men employed at the colliery.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

November 4, 1876

AMID showers of compliments the Mayor (Alderman C. Wolfenden) has been re-elected, and for a second year enters upon his duties as our Municipal President and Chief Magistrate of the Borough. Few men excel Alderman Rushton in the command of graceful eloquence, and he exercised the gift to advantage on Thursday.

The senior ex-Mayor imparted charms even to the dry work of Corporate life, profusely distributed pleasantries all round, and was especially warm in his eulogy of the Mayor.

Adulatory speeches were also made by Councillors Cannon, Dobson and Ramwell; and if "the other side" preserved silence, the Mayor has at any rate the gratification of knowing that they took part in the Election, and that he occupies the civic chair by the unanimous vote of the Council.

During the next year, the Mayor enumerates not less than six special and large projects which must be dealt with. There is first the new Museum; second, the extended Sewage Scheme; third, the increased distribution and sale of water and gas, so as to utilise the existing works and make them as profitable as possible; fourth, a new Cemetery; fifth, Trinity-street Railway Station improvements; and sixth, a Parliamentary campaign for the extension of the Borough.

25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, November 4, 1976

ACTRESS Joyce Bate went a bit too far during rehearsals for a Bolton Christmas pantomime, Dick Whittington, and poor King Rat needed hospital treatment.

Little Joyce, who plays Dick in the family show due to be staged by Sweetloves Amateur Operatic Society next month was rehearsing a fight scene with King Rat - played by 13-stone lorry driver Bill Wainman.

She unleashed a karate chop after Bill urged her to "get stuck in". And Bill had to be treated in hospital for a fractured shoulder.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, November 5, 1951

SIR,- In a sweet shop on Saturday afternoon I was refused two bars of blended chocolate, displayed in the window, because I refused to buy, in addition, the equivalent in sweets.

It's not the first time this sort of thing has happened at this particular shop. If the chocolate is displayed, it should be sold to anyone who can produce the money and coupons, without insisting on a condition of sale. Yours, Nurse Hayes.

A START has been made on the provision of new pit-head baths for Deane Colliery, Bolton, and it is expected that they will be completed in a year's time. The baths will be of a special type, suitable for small collieries such as Deane, and will provide up-to-date bathing and dressing accommodation for all the men employed at the colliery.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, November 4, 1876

AMID showers of compliments the Mayor (Alderman C. Wolfenden) has been re-elected, and for a second year enters upon his duties as our Municipal President and Chief Magistrate of the Borough. Few men excel Alderman Rushton in the command of graceful eloquence, and he exercised the gift to advantage on Thursday.

The senior ex-Mayor imparted charms even to the dry work of Corporate life, profusely distributed pleasantries all round, and was especially warm in his eulogy of the Mayor.

Adulatory speeches were also made by Councillors Cannon, Dobson and Ramwell; and if "the other side" preserved silence, the Mayor has at any rate the gratification of knowing that they took part in the Election, and that he occupies the civic chair by the unanimous vote of the Council.

During the next year, the Mayor enumerates not less than six special and large projects which must be dealt with. There is first the new Museum; second, the extended Sewage Scheme; third, the increased distribution and sale of water and gas, so as to utilise the existing works and make them as profitable as possible; fourth, a new Cemetery; fifth, Trinity-street Railway Station improvements; and sixth, a Parliamentary campaign for the extension of the Borough.

New pit-head baths for Deane Colliery