Workmen hurt in mill office explosion

25 YEARS AGO

BURY'S rain hit "Free People's Pop Festival" looked like turning into a giant flop festival today. No more than 100 rock fans were sitting round their smouldering camp fire this morning. The three-day festival being held at Deeply Vale, off Walmersley Old Road, has not been the hit organisers expected.

AMOROUS schoolgirls are becoming an ever increasing problem for male teachers, an educational psychologist warned today. "It is becoming more intensified as young people become more sophisticated," he said.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, September 18, 1951

WINDOWS were blown out, part of a wall collapsed, and two workmen were taken to Bolton Royal Infirmary with burns when an explosion rocked the general office at Bolton Textile Co's Suez Mill in Worsley-road, Farnworth, today. The two men were laying a new rubber floor in a freshly decorated office.

MORE than a generation has passed since death overtook that great son of Bolton, the First Viscount Leverhulme, the centenary of whose birth a nation is recalling today, and of which we in Bolton think with special pride. A number of church services are being held both in Bolton and Port Sunlight in his memory.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, September 19, 1876

SIR, - Allow me to call public attention to a petty system of small gambling, openly practised (and placarded in the windows of certain tradespeople) by children and young persons.

The temptation to try their luck in certain prizes amongst a given number of penny packets - say twelve dozen - and the object of the infant gamester is to pick out of the number one of the prize packets. This, sir, is the old lucky bag of our school days, the elements of "raffle", "lottery" and "hazard", and introducing in the minds of children those baneful proclivities that every right-minded person would seek to stamp out of their nature.

Lotteries being illegal, it is the duty of the police authorities to step in under the magistracy to suppress this modern invasion of the law; otherwise it will grow from pennies to pounds, and gambling to be as rife in the streets of Westhoughton and Bolton as in the German hells of Baden-baden. - I am, sir, &c., J.O.

25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, September 19, 1976

BURY'S rain hit "Free People's Pop Festival" looked like turning into a giant flop festival today. No more than 100 rock fans were sitting round their smouldering camp fire this morning. The three-day festival being held at Deeply Vale, off Walmersley Old Road, has not been the hit organisers expected.

AMOROUS schoolgirls are becoming an ever increasing problem for male teachers, an educational psychologist warned today. "It is becoming more intensified as young people become more sophisticated," he said.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, September 18, 1951

WINDOWS were blown out, part of a wall collapsed, and two workmen were taken to Bolton Royal Infirmary with burns when an explosion rocked the general office at Bolton Textile Co's Suez Mill in Worsley-road, Farnworth, today. The two men were laying a new rubber floor in a freshly decorated office.

MORE than a generation has passed since death overtook that great son of Bolton, the First Viscount Leverhulme, the centenary of whose birth a nation is recalling today, and of which we in Bolton think with special pride. A number of church services are being held both in Bolton and Port Sunlight in his memory.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, September 19, 1876

SIR, - Allow me to call public attention to a petty system of small gambling, openly practised (and placarded in the windows of certain tradespeople) by children and young persons.

The temptation to try their luck in certain prizes amongst a given number of penny packets - say twelve dozen - and the object of the infant gamester is to pick out of the number one of the prize packets.

This, sir, is the old lucky bag of our school days, the elements of "raffle", "lottery" and "hazard", and introducing in the minds of children those baneful proclivities that every right-minded person would seek to stamp out of their nature.

Lotteries being illegal, it is the duty of the police authorities to step in under the magistracy to suppress this modern invasion of the law; otherwise it will grow from pennies to pounds, and gambling to be as rife in the streets of Westhoughton and Bolton as in the German hells of Baden-baden. - I am, sir, &c., J.O.