25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, September 21, 1975

ENVIRONMENTALISTS and such worthy bodies as the Council for the Protection of Rural England are currently expressing concern over the future of the English village. Fears have been expressed that villages are turning into 'middle class geriatric museums, or chic coffee-morning commuter estates'. Until recent times the definition of a village might have been 'a community of those mainly engaged in agricultural pursuits', but we are in the middle of an agricultural revolution which has changed the pattern of rural life more drastically than it has ever changed in a thousand years. Some kind of guidance must be allowed if English villages are not to become mere dormitories or rural suburbs. More attention must be paid to the establishment of genuine rural industries and to transport communications between villages and centres of unemployment.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, September 21, 1950

A SUGGESTION that new by-laws which are to come into operation next month to enforce clean food should be accompanied by a 'blaze of publicity' was made by Mr W. Glynn at Bolton Trades Council meeting last night. The local authority had a large part to play, said Mr F. Walker. Flies would breed where there was filth, he said, and the streets and gutters in Bolton were not as clean as they could be. Bolton was also a town, he added, where the streets were fouled by dogs, cats, and other animals, and he suggested that the streets should be constantly patrolled, and disinfectant spread wherever refuse was found.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, September 21, 1875

ZOOLOGICAL Gardens, Belle Vue, Manchester. Open every day from 10am

Danson & Sons' Grand Spectacle of the

Ashantee War and Capture of Coomassie

Every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday at Dusk. Military Band of the Gardens every day from three pm. Great collection of Living Animals and Birds, including Lions, Tigers, Elephants, Giraffes, Zebras, Bisons, Monkeys &c

Lakes, eight acres in extent, with Pleasure Boats and Steamers. Mazes, Museum, Great Music Hall, Refreshment and Tea Rooms. Stabling for 200 horses. No charges for Horses and Conveyances with Visitors to the Gardens.

Admission to the Gardens 6d Monday and Wednesdays, 1s after 4pm. Saturday 1s after 5pm.