From the Evening News, September 17, 1976

EIGHTEEN local firms, Bolton Chamber of Commerce, Bolton Council and the Wingates Temperance Band have just spend nearly a week successfully "selling" Bolton in Le Mans, our French twin town. More than 40,000 people visited the Bolton pavilion to learn about the town.

POWERS to ban the non-essential use of water in Bolton, Bury and Leigh have been granted to the North West Water Authority.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, September 17, 1951

FARNWORTH'S memorial to the men and women of the town who lost their lives in the second world war, a Garden of Remembrance which incorporates the memorial to the first world war, in the Central Park, was dedicated and opened yesterday.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, September 18, 1876

Sir,- Last week your paper contained a letter written by some sensible person or other referring to people standing in groups on the sidewalks and other places, to the great annoyance of respectable people who are passing; but still it seems to have no effect. Yesterday, at a quarter to four o'clock, there were no less than 78 men standing on the railway bridge ridge near the Wesleyan Chapel in Westhoughton. I should like to know if, after the repeated complaints made, gentlemen with bright buttons should be amongst the first to obstruct the pavements. I hope the police force will take a hint. - Yours truly, Multum in Parvo.

25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

September 17, 1976

EIGHTEEN local firms, Bolton Chamber of Commerce, Bolton Council and the Wingates Temperance Band have just spend nearly a week successfully "selling" Bolton in Le Mans, our French twin town. More than 40,000 people visited the Bolton pavilion to learn about the town.

POWERS to ban the non-essential use of water in Bolton, Bury and Leigh have been granted to the North West Water Authority.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

September 17, 1951

FARNWORTH'S memorial to the men and women of the town who lost their lives in the second world war, a Garden of Remembrance which incorporates the memorial to the first world war, in the Central Park, was dedicated and opened yesterday.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

September 18, 1876

Sir,- Last week your paper contained a letter written by some sensible person or other referring to people standing in groups on the sidewalks and other places, to the great annoyance of respectable people who are passing; but still it seems to have no effect. Yesterday, at a quarter to four o'clock, there were no less than 78 men standing on the railway bridge ridge near the Wesleyan Chapel in Westhoughton. I should like to know if, after the repeated complaints made, gentlemen with bright buttons should be amongst the first to obstruct the pavements. I hope the police force will take a hint. - Yours truly, Multum in Parvo.