25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, July 3, 1976

THE north's Arabian-style weather continues to make hot news with record after record being smashed.

Bolton holiday's sunshine quota has been 15 hours a day. At the Lancashire coast resorts yesterday, sun temperatures of over 100F were recorded. Shade temperatures were around a "cool" 90F. In Bolton the temperature yesterday afternoon as 88.9 degrees F. the second highest since records were started at Hall i'th' Wood museum in 1892. The record is 89 degrees F., set on August 3 last year.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, July 3, 1951

ELECTRICITY power cuts might be heavier next winter and more load spreading will have to be done not only by industry but by commercial and domestic customers, it was said today.

SIR,- If any policeman passes by Brandwood-st. school between eleven and twelve most evenings of the week he will find a number of cars and perhaps a lorry or two lying on a piece of spare land opposite the school. Sometimes at weekends it sounds like the TT races starting up and resembles a miniature parking ground. Yours, Passer-By.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, July 3, 1876

SIR,- Your readers will, I am quite sure, be pleased to hear that a fellow-townsman, formerly a member of the town council and once holding an exalted position amidst those entrusted with the care of our poor, has just returned to his country house (not a hundred miles from Leyland) from an extended tour in the United States. His distinguished mien and engaging suavity gained him the entree to the highest American circles, and we are informed that the President himself (General Grant) was delighted to honour Bolton by a reception of his country's eminent visitor. Our townsman was much better received than many a foreign potentate who puts up at a London hotel and leaves without a glimpse of royalty, for on calling at the White House, the President (whom he much resembles in personal appearance) on hearing who he was, at once entertained him with the ceremony due to his position and town. - Yours, &c., Teot.