From the Evening News, October 8, 1976

25 YEARS AGO

THE Bolton Area Health Authority was today threatened with High Court action after it overwhelmingly reaffirmed its decision to add fluoride to the area's water supplies.

Bolton councillor Kevin Hornby, a member of the authority, said after the 11 to four vote in favour of fluoridation that he would ask Bolton Council to take the fight to the courts. And Counc Raymond Halliwell called for a new referendum before Christmas to determine the views of Bolton people.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, October 8, 1951

WITH boys keener than ever to join, Bolton Lads' Club is having to refuse them membership for lack of room. This is revealed in the club's annual report. Already on the books are 250 junior and 240 members, and the club reports a large waiting list.

PEOPLE with television sets have been besieging their radio dealers this week with requests for their sets to be adapted to the Holme Moss station, which opens on Friday.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, October 9, 1876

FOR some months back, the denomination known as the Catholic Apostolic Church, who have no settled place of worship in the town, have been looking forward to the completion of a chapel now being erected in Thomas Holden-street, off Chorley Old-road. The building is a small, neat, unpretentious structure of brick, with arched roof, and capable when completed of accommodating 220 worshippers. The contractor is Mr William Cowper, land and estate agent, Manchester, and operations were progressing favourably until a few days ago, when it was perceived by those engaged in the building that the west wall of the edifice had given way to the extent of several feet broad, a large crack being visible. Immediate precautions were at once taken to prop the roof, and the whole of the wall was taken down and is now being rebuilt. The novel spectacle is presented of a roof supported mainly on wooden beams, and the wall being built up to it. The east wall will also have to be taken down and rebuilt. The cause of the subsidence of the wall is the existence of an old unsuspected drain about a foot below the bottom of the foundations, which were 2ft. 9in deep, the drain being about a foot in depth. The damage to the building cannot be less than £100.