8,000 new homes plan turned down

25 YEARS AGO

PLANS to build almost 8,000 houses in five separate estates in the Middle Hulton area have been turned down by Bolton's Planning Committee. In total the schemes covered 662 acres, much of it farmland, north and south of the M61 and east and west of Smethurst Lane.

A WOMAN is campaigning to persuade British tourists in Spain to boycott bullfights. Mrs Jean Shaw, of Taywood Road, also warns that people may be breaking the law by taking children to bullfights. Spanish law prohibits children under the age of 14 from attending.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, July 31. 1951

SEVERAL local dry cleaning firms are now refusing to take women's clothing for invisible mending. So many men are having the frayed cuffs of their jacket and trouser turn-ups mended that the cleaners say it is impossible, at the moment, to take women's clothes as well.

Is this an indication that men are having to think twice before buying new suits, and are trying to make old ones last longer, or is it that many men have only just realized that these invisible mending services exist?

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, July 30, 1876

AN unfortunate affair has just come to light off Bridgeman-street. A man named Alexander Bentham, platelayer, lately in the employ of the London and North Western Railway Company, lived with his wife and child at the home of Mr Thomas Inglesfield, 119 Brick-street.

Mrs Bentham had been known to be addicted to drinking, especially on Saturday nights. A little after ten o'clock on Saturday night week, a next door neighbour heard quarrelling between Bentham and his wife, and almost immediately afterwards Mrs Bentham ran out of the house into the back yard, followed by her husband, who struck her on the head with a poker which he had in his hand.

The blow caused a severe wound on the left side of the head, and the woman went into the next house. She was attended by Mr Deeham, surgeon, but on Thursday or Friday of last week she was seized with lockjaw, together with a paralysis of the left side of the body. All sustenance supplied to her had to be of a liquid kind, and she gradually sank and died on Sunday night about seven o'clock.

25 YEARS AGO

From the Even Evening News, July 31, 1976

PLANS to build almost 8,000 houses in five separate estates in the Middle Hulton area have been turned down by Bolton's Planning Committee. In total the schemes covered 662 acres, much of it farmland, north and south of the M61 and east and west of Smethurst Lane.

A BOLTON woman is campaigning to persuade British tourists in Spain to boycott bullfights. Mrs Jean Shaw, of Taywood Road, also warns that people may be breaking the law by taking children to bullfights. Spanish law prohibits children under the age of 14 from attending.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, July 31. 1951

SEVERAL local dry cleaning firms are now refusing to take women's clothing for invisible mending. So many men are having the frayed cuffs of their jacket and trouser turn-ups mended that the cleaners say it is impossible, at the moment, to take women's clothes as well.

Is this an indication that men are having to think twice before buying new suits, and are trying to make old ones last longer, or is it that many men have only just realized that these invisible mending services exist?

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, July 30, 1876

AN unfortunate affair has just come to light off Bridgeman-street. A man named Alexander Bentham, platelayer, lately in the employ of the London and North Western Railway Company, lived with his wife and child at the home of Mr Thomas Inglesfield, 119 Brick-street.

Mrs Bentham had been known to be addicted to drinking, especially on Saturday nights. A little after ten o'clock on Saturday night week, a next door neighbour heard quarrelling between Bentham and his wife, and almost immediately afterwards Mrs Bentham ran out of the house into the back yard, followed by her husband, who struck her on the head with a poker which he had in his hand.

The blow caused a severe wound on the left side of the head, and the woman went into the next house. She was attended by Mr Deeham, surgeon, but on Thursday or Friday of last week she was seized with lockjaw, together with a paralysis of the left side of the body. All sustenance supplied to her had to be of a liquid kind, and she gradually sank and died on Sunday night about seven o'clock.