25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, October 21, 1975

JUNIOR doctors at Bolton General Hospital have joined the industrial action over pay. They have decided to handle emergency cases only from 9am today. Meanwhile, at Bolton Royal Infirmary, doctors are treating non-emergency cases, but only working a 40-hour week.

A HORWICH man thinks he has seen the ghost of Lord Leverhulme walking the ruined ornamental gardens at Rivington. The man says he saw a small man, dressed in a gold-check maroon coat, walking down steps at the old bungalow grounds. The man followed the silvery-haired 'gentleman' for several seconds down the steps. Suddenly, the figure vanished. The man searched the area and found nothing.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, October 21, 1950

THE young people of Bolton and district have today received a Christmas challenge. They have been asked by Uncle John of the Bolton Journal and Guardian to do something for others this Christmas in return for all the gifts and kindness which will no doubt be showered upon them

The have been asked, in fact, to follow the advice given to Field-Marshal Viscount Montgomery to members of the Lads' Club - 'Do something for others less fortunate than yourselves, particularly for old people and for orphans and needy children.'

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, October 21, 1875

WE would remind our readers of the visit of this marvelle, Dr Lynn, a presidigitateur, to Bolton this evening. His feats in the conjuring art have been almost universally extolled by the press and the public, and the Temperance Hall in Bolton, like the Egyptian Hall in London invariably is, ought to be crowded.

A ROBBERY has been committed at Walmsley Church, Turton. On some of the officials going into the vestry on Sunday morning last, they discovered that between £4 and £5 had been abstracted from a box which was kept in that portion of the edifice. It was subsequently found that access had been obtained by breaking a pane of glass in the vestry-room. The police authorities were communicated with, and on Thursday at midnight Police-constable Kenyon apprehended a quarryman named Wm Crook, of Turton, and charged him with the offence. He is now in custody.