From the Evening News, September 4, 1976

25 YEARS AGO

A REBEL priest, suspended from the Catholic Church, last night celebrated the outlawed, traditional Mass in a terraced house in Bury. More than 50 people packed into the makeshift chapel in the lounge of the house in Walmersley Road to hear Fr Michael Cresswell speak the banned Latin words of the Tridentine Mass.

MANCHESTER Airport was "like a refugee camp" today as thousands of sunseekers, faced delays of up to six hours on flights to Spain.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

September 4, 1951

SIR,- Frequenters of Moss Bank Park will have noticed the developing practice of motorists bringing their cars to the park and parking them on the grass besides the pitch-and-put course. Thus we see the beauty of the park as the background for a car park. Some people even stay in their car reading or eating sandwiches. We need to be on our guard against this encroachment on the amenities of the park, and I trust the practice will be stopped before these idle people claim a parking place on the grounds of precedent and custom!. Yours, Park Lover.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

September 4, 1876

THE Town Clerk, Mr R.G. Hinnell, will present, at the next Town Council meeting, an exhaustive report on the Rivers Pollution Act, and, applying its provisions to Bolton, suggests that the action of the Corporation should be: To establish forthwith a vigilant watch for preventing solid refuse from being put into or allowing to fall into the river Croal, or the river Tonge, or any tributary of either of them; to lose no time in perfecting works for treating the whole of the sewage of the borough, so that such works may be in efficient operation before the 15th August, 1877; to watch the action of neighbouring local authorities draining into either of the above streams, and see that they conform to the provisions of the Act; and to enforce the provisions of the Act with respect to manufacturing and mining pollutions affecting the same streams.

PLANS have been passed for the erection of a new Congregational church on Blackburn-road.