From the Evening News, October 27, 1976

25 YEARS AGO

A TEENAGE girl has ended a 200-years-old tradition at a Bolton engineering plant by becoming the firm's first girl craft trainee. Everyone at the Bradley Fold works of Platt Saco Lowell is delighted - for Beverly Ann Hargreaves, of Crompton Way, Bolton, is said to be the "perfect apprentice".

ACCORDING to a nationwide survey, many female office workers not go bra-less and carry out their nine to five duties in jeans.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

October 27, 1951

IF your mind has not been too preoccupied with the elections, you will perhaps have noticed something unusual about the town centre this week. For the first time since the beginning of the war in 1939, some winter-time shop window lighting is being permitted during working hours. It was the local Chamber of Commerce who told the Minister that if Morecambe and Blackpool could have illuminations, then shops were surely entitled to some consideration.

The shopkeepers have got a sort of consolation prize. Between sunset and closing time, shop windows can be lighted to show that the premises are open. Where meals are served, lighting can be used to indicate the menu. In the case of entertainment or sport, it can be used to give information about the programme.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

October 27, 1876

AT the Borough Court on Wednesday, several boys were summoned for letting off fireworks in the public streets. Mr Beech (Chief Constable) said that repeated complaints had been made of the practice, and the police were endeavouring to put a stop to it. The boys were each fined 5s including costs, or three days' imprisonment.

Ellen Wadddicar, who described herself as a female collier, of Organ-row, Hindley Green, was sent to prison for 14 days for disorderly conduct in Deansgate on Saturday.