25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, November 28,1975

A PROPOSAL for an internal radio service in Bolton hospitals has been turned down by the Area Health Authority, because there are already TV and radio facilities for the patients, and a hospital broadcasting system would be of dubious value.

MR Average Britain is now earning £67 a week, a survey shows today. The average pay of men in April was £60.80 a week, but since then earnings have risen by just over 10 per cent, indicating the average pay packet before tax and other deductions is now about £67 -- £3,500 a year. Women are left well behind, only just averaging £2,000 a year.

CHANGES in public demand are being blamed for the closure of the weaving department at Vantona Furnishings' Moor Mill, in Parrot Street, Bolton. About 90 employees have been told they will soon be made redundant.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, November 29, 1950

MORE than 550 Horwich, Lostock and Bolton people attended a celebrity concert in the Bee Hive Mills canteen last night, in aid of the Wilfred Pickles's recent broadcast appeal for donations to the Cresswell Colliery disaster fund. It was appropriate that the concert should take place in the Lostock canteen, which was first used by the public in last year's recording of a Wilfred Pickles 'Have a Go' programme.

MRS Jessie Andrews, wife of Mr John Miller Andrews, MP, former Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, and daughter of the late Mr and Mrs Joseph Ormrod, late of Morelands, Heaton, Bolton, died suddenly in Co. Down on Sunday. She was married at Rivington Chapel in 1902.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, November 29, 1875

FURTHER details of the Bolton Junctions Railway have been published. The site and the Railway Station for Bolton and good approaches to it are points upon which a good deal of public interest has been felt, and the Board of Directors appear to have responded to the general wishes expressed on these matters, so far as they have deemed practicable.

It was desired by many that the terminus should be fixed near the Market Hall, but the difficulties in the way are obvious; and the site chosen, viz., the land bounded by Churchgate, Bank-street, Manor-street, and Water-street, will be found very convenient for Little Bolton. For easy access from the centre of the town, it is proposed to make a new road opposite the Swan Hotel.

Great improvements may be expected in this part of the Borough in the event of the projected line being carried out.

SIR,- When are the Police or Streets Committee to be seen in Gregson Field, where the ratepayers are annoyed with tramps trying their doors and sleeping in the water closets, where there is one lamp to light 20 houses in the front, not any to light ten at the back; the road and pathway are in such condition that no person can walk on them without endangering life or limb. - Yours etc., F. Hunt, 2 Gregson Field.