25 YEARS AGO

DID you hear about the Irish greyhound that won a race and forgot to stop? Danny Boy, bought for more than £500 in Bolton on Tuesday, covered 535 yards in 31.62 seconds at Bolton Greyhound Stadium last night - and just kept on going. He jumped a white wall and went via Cross Street, Manchester Road and Raikes Lane to St Peter's Way. Today he was still missing.

50 YEARS AGO

MR J.F. Ellison came to the town over 70 years ago, with a considerable acting reputation, became joint manager of the Theatre Royal with M. Duval, (a notable figure in the Lancashire theatre world) and was later manager and then managing director of the Bolton Theatre Company. Research has revealed him as a very amusing Simple Simon in the pantomime 'Little Bo-Peep' at the Theatre Royal, which opened on Dec. 29th, 1879, shortly after he had been made production manager. There was a rich round of local 'gags' in the show, in which the projected horse trams, the Bolton Mayoralty, and the School Board were made objects of fun.

125 YEARS AGO

YESTERDAY afternoon a fire, which proved to be the largest ever known in Glasgow, broke out in a spinning mill. The factory consists of a large spinning and weaving establishment, and within 15 minutes of the fire being discovered the former was totally destroyed. The building was 300 feet long and 120 wide, and four storeys high. Soon after the outbreak, the flames extended to a mill on the opposite side of the street. This factory, also, is one of the most extensive of its kind, and in half an hour it likewise was totally destroyed. In the first mill, 450 persons were employed, and in the second, fully 700 persons, mostly women and girls, will be thrown out of employment. A number of women had great difficulty in escaping from the weaving mill. The damage is estimated at £300,000.