From the Evening News, September 19, 1975

A HUNDRED Bolton women and girls came out of work yesterday . . . over and over again. And soon they'll be doing the same things over and over again . . . on the nation's television screens. Female workers at Tootal's Sunnyside Mills were taking part in a TV commercial for a well-known chocolate bar. The thousands of feet of film taken during the two days will be edited down to just 30 seconds of screen time.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, September 19, 1950

AT a meeting of Bolton Entertainments Committee this afternoon, Counc. Edwin Taylor appealed to the directors and management of Bolton Wanderers Football Club to show more enterprise so that the club could achieve once more the great name it once held in First Division football. He believed it was the duty of the Council to prod the directors of the club into action where they were failing in their responsibilities. But Ald Dunning urged the Committee not to interfere in the affairs of the club, because once control of sport was in the hands of the State or the local authority, this would cease to be England and become Soviet Russia.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, September 19, 1875

IT is reported that a Tyldesley collier, named Thomas Ashcroft, of 21, John-street, Tyldesley, was stabbed during a quarrel at the Flag Inn, Great Moor-street, Bolton, on Monday afternoon. Whilst Ashcroft was waiting for the train to Tyldesley, he got into conversation with a man who was drinking in the house. Eventually they became excited, and on Ashcroft remonstrating with him for using an abusive expression, he was struck over the eye by some instrument, thought to be a knife. A deep wound nearly an inch wide was made just over Ashcroft's eyebrow, from which blood flowed freely. The man who caused the injury ran away from the house. We are informed that in the course of the afternoon a man was arrested on suspicion of having committed the assault, but, as he could not be distinctly identified by the wounded man and other who were in the public house at the time, he was discharged.