25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, September 12, 1975

ONE of the women who took part in a flour bomb attack on Home Secretary Mr Roy Jenkins last night gave her reasons today. And she said it was the beginning of a campaign her group was launching. The woman, Mrs Mary Dyer, from Hyde, Cheshire, said she and friends, including a Radcliffe woman, had been forced into taking violent action as a protest against the extension of the race relation laws.

work has started on pulling down houses in the way of Bolton's Blackburn-rd. bypass. Fourteen houses in Thorn Street have been flattened, although the £4,500,000 scheme is still under consideration by the Greater Manchester Council after the Government's directive for cuts in spending.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evenin g News, September 13, 1950

MR George Bernard Shaw, aged 94, who is in hospital where he had an operation to set a fracture of his thigh caused when he fell in his garden on Sunday, said today that patients in hospital are given too many baths.

He said this when admitted to the hospital yesterday, and today, after being given a bed bath by Sister Elizabeth Gallagher, he told her that she should give him a certificate to say that he had had a bath, 'otherwise someone will come along in five minutes and give me another one.'

SIR,- I was walking up Bridge-st. yesterday afternoon when one of my shoe laces became untied. While looking for a convenient spot to place my foot - my waist-line is not as slender as it used to be - a lady, a stranger to me, removed her gloves and did the needful.

If this should catch the lady's eye, may I repeat my thanks. In these days of hustle and bustle, it is refreshing to know that the age of chivalry is not past.- Yours, etc., Grateful.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, September 13, 1875

THE movement for bringing the advantages of the Cambridge University Extension Scheme to Bolton and neighbourhood has, we are glad to say, almost arrived at maturity. The Committee entrusted with the undertaking have worked in the matter with untiring zeal, and with a determination to overcome all obstacles to their success; and they have now the satisfaction of seeing the plan thoroughly developed, and on the point of being brought into practical operation. As we have already stated, it is proposed by the Scheme to place within the reach of persons within Bolton, who are unable to go to Cambridge, the advantages of a University education, by means of lectures and classes given and conducted by Lecturers from Cambridge University. In securing the benefits of the Scheme for Bolton, they have rendered to the town a service which may be of incalculable value.

SIR,- Will you please correct a paragraph which appeared in your yesterday's issue, concerning a performance which purports to be given at the theatre by the Bolton Dramatic Club this evening. The Dramatic Club do not as a body recognise the performance, neither are several of the leading members of the club sustaining the principal parts. Only one of the club is playing, the rest of the cast being supplied by outsiders who are neither directly nor indirectly connected with the club. Trusting you will make the correction if only for the sake and name of the struggling dramatic club. I remain your obedient servant, Salvini.