25 YEARS AGOo From the Evening News, June 16, 1976

PLANS to transfer production work and white-collar jobs from the Horwich factory of Rivington Carpets to the Wigan plant will go on. Up to 200 jobs are threatened at Horwich as a result of the firm's reorganisation.

TWELVE months hard labour ended at the weekend for members of Turton Local History Society. A giant cast and wrought iron water-wheel, nearly 14 feet in diameter, was lifted out of its pit at Turton Bottoms on the side of the old Black Rock Mill, and later transported for preservation in the grounds of Turton Tower.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

June 16, 1951

IN Paris the rage is for "Les Girls Americain", London favours the Folies Bergere, and "A Night in Paris" is as near as Bolton can get to the Parisian flavour. The influence at the Grand Theatre next week is not completely Gallic as the name of the comic, Sandy Lane, is likely to suggest. It has a good Yorkshire solidity about it. Fifi gives some statuesque poses; the Reco Sisters are experts on the trapeze; Tiki and Del are dancers; and the Continental Goya Ballet needs no explanation.

At the Hippodrome, the Lawrence-Williamson Players present the play "I Killed the Count".

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

June 16, 1876

AT the County Sessions on Thursday afternoon, three boys, named George Hall, William Barlow, and Alfred Brooks, were charged with having absconded from the Industrial School, at Lostock, on the 10th March last. - The boys having pleaded guilty to the charge, Mr Richard Gorst, the governor, said Hall and Barlow had absconded once from the school and he wished them to be sent back again with an order to serve the time they had been absent, on the conclusion of the term for which they were originally sent.

Brooks had absconded twice, and in his own interests he wished him to be sent to a reformatory. The magistrates ordered all the boys to return to the school to serve their time out, and the time they had lost by absconding. They did not think the offence by Brooks by merely absconding justified his being sent to a reformatory for two years.