25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, October 19, 1975

VISITORS and out-patients to Bolton Royal Infirmary are to be banned from parking their cars in a street outside. And one of the reasons for the ban is that limited-time parking would be difficult to enforce because it would interfere with traffic wardens' lunch breaks; another was that the wardens could be more usefully employed in other parts of the town.

BOLTON Power Station at Back-o'th'-Bank is one of seven North-west power stations scheduled for closure in the programme announced by the Central Electricity Generating Board. Kearsley Power Station is also on the list scheduled as 'part closure'.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News News, October 19, 1950

AN association with Bolton Wanderers extending over 38 years was ended last night when the directors accepted the resignation of their Secretary-Manager, Mr Walter J. Rowley, on the grounds of ill health.

SIR,- Of late, three weeks in succession, the flowers have been taken from my mother's grave at Deane Church. Is there to be no respect for our loved ones who have passed away?- Yours, Nellie Bullough (Miss), 12 Hooton-st., Bolton.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, October 19, 1875

THE Horwich Industrial Co-operative Society held their annual tea meeting on Saturday evening. About 250 persons took tea. At the subsequent meeting Mr W. Robinson (president of the society) took the chair. The meeting was addressed by Mr Wm. Kerfoot and Mr Taylor, of Chorley. Recitations in the Lancashire dialect were given by Mr E. Sutherland, of Hindley, and Mr Jas. Caldwell, jnr., of Horwich, which were well received. The Horwich Glee Club were also present, and sang several glees and songs in a pleasing manner, which added considerably to the pleasure of the evening. After the meeting closed, dancing commenced and was kept up spiritedly until eleven o'clock.

AN editor was prosecuted for libel by a firm whose shop he called a 'thieving establishment'. He produced the original manuscript on the trial, showing that he wrote 'thriving establishment', and the jury gave him a verdict of acquittal.