From the Evening News, November 17, 1976

25 YEARS AGO

MORE than 100 children were evacuated from a Bolton nursery school when explosive petrol fumes seeped into the building. The fumes escaped from underground sewer pipes into Pikes Lane Nursery School yesterday through floor-level heating grills.

ADVERTISEMENT: "One point should be made very clear. The 125P is not to be confused with some of the ill-handling, rubbishy tinware to have come from behind the Iron Curtain in the past. It is a proper motor car, practical, sturdy, well-finished and proven, in more than 40 countries to which it is exported throughout the world." - Motor Sport, June 1975.

The Polski Fiat, four-door, on the road for £1,749 at Lythgoe Motors, Crompton Way, Bolton.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

November 17, 1951

CONCERNED at what it describes as the growing tendency to organize secular entertainment in Bolton on Sundays, the Bolton Council of Christian Congregationalists decided at its annual meeting last night to send a resolution to Bolton Watch Committee.

The resolution expresses the belief that the observance of Sunday as a day of worship and rest is vital to the well-being of the community. The increasing disregard of its true purpose, adds the resolution, has contributed in a large measure to the weakening of the national character of the country.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

November 17, 1876

SIR, - At the recent municipal meetings the Conservatives spoke of the great sanitary improvements effected in the borough by their party. Granting that they have accomplished everything to which they lay claim, I would at the same time remind them that much still remains to be done.

With scarlet fever now raging in our midst, I think the "powers that be" would do well to show that they are still anxious to improve the sanitary condition of the borough, and could not do so better than turn their attention to Haulgh, where I believe scarlet fever is now prevalent.

For instance, there is a back street between Bury New-road and Bradford-street, adjoining property that has been built over a dozen years, that is still unpaved, and water is now to be seen lying in some of the ashpits for want of a sewer to carry it off. Surely this ought to be remedied, particularly as two deaths from the disease mentioned here have immediately occurred in the immediate neighbourhood.

Sanitary matters were the principal topic in the speeches of Aldermen Greenhalgh, Rushton and Richardson during the municipal campaign, and I would submit that these gentleman cannot do better than see that the principles they pointed to with so much pride are carried out to the letter. Yours &c. Humanitarian.