From the Evening News, October 21, 1976

25 YEARS AGO

A GROUP of elderly women took to the streets today to protest over the proposed closure of Red Cot Home on Chorley New Road, Bolton. The women, many of them in their 70s and 80s, were collecting signatures on a petition. The closure of the home is part of an £80,000 package of economy cuts proposed by Bolton's Social Services Committee.

A £215,000 geriatric day hospital in Bolton - the first of its type in the North-west - has opened its doors to patients for the first time.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

October 22, 1951

THE Bolton SSS League's clever junior international table tennis player, Clifford Booth, of Raphael-st. Methodists, continues to forge his way into the limelight. His latest triumph was the winning of the junior singles event of the North of England open championships at Manchester last Saturday, when he defeated G. Pullar, one of his most formidable opponents, in the final, after a terrific struggle by 20-22, 21-12, 21-15.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

October 21, 1876

AT the Bolton Sessions on Monday, Robert Lowe and Peter Wilson, Westhoughton, were summoned by the Westhoughton and Lostock School Board for neglecting to cause their children to attend school.

Mr G.R. Rothwell, clerk to the school board, prosecuted. The defendants did not appear.

In the case of Wilson, the mother of the child appeared and proved that her child attended a woman's school at Westhoughton, and called the mistress of the school, who deposed that the child was being instructed in reading, writing, arithmetic, and dictation.

Mr Rothwell contended that the school in question was not a public elementary school in accordance with the Act of Parliament. - Mr Briggs, presiding magistrate, said the bench was disposed to give the Westhoughton School Board every facility for carrying out the Act of Parliament. In the case of Wilson, however, it was disclosed that he had not received the summons, and taking into consideration that his child was attending school, the charge against him would be dismissed. In the case of Lowe, a warrant would be issued.