25 YEARS AGO
A COUNCILLOR today quit the Labour Party saying he refused to be 'gagged' by leaders of the Labour Group on Bolton Borough Council. Counc Ken Brown said group leaders had asked him to withdraw his call for an end to councillors and officials 'wining and dining' at the ratepayers' expense. After he refused to do this, he was told he was likely to be expelled from the Labour Group, so he decided to quit first.
AN Atherton doctor, Dr Kenneth Deakin, aged 77, has been ordered to stop treating his National Health Service patients following newspaper allegations that he was 'adding dangerously to Bolton's teenage drugs problem' with prescriptions of barbiturates.
50 YEARS AGO
From the Evening News, September 1, 1950
SIR,- Cycling to Little Lever at 7a.m. is not a particularly interesting trip, except, perhaps, where it can be dangerous towards the bottom of Hall-lane, where a cold, wet mist very often hangs over road and river.
Yesterday morning as I was riding down the hill behind a bus, the mist was there as usual, but colder. As we approached the bottom, the bus slowed down, as I thought at the stop. Pulling out to overtake, I was confronted by two monsters, shapeless in the swirling mist. Believe me, they were elephants -black ones. Yours etc., H.S. Thornley, 50 Haynes-st., Bolton.
(The explanation is simple; there is a touring circus in King-st., Farnworth, and the elephants were out for exercise. Editor)
125 YEARS AGO
ON Monday afternoon, a man named Edward Bottomley, a piecer, aged 19, of Brown-street, was apprehended on a charge of having caused the death of John Morris Hamer, aged 27 years, who resided at 21, Oliver-row. It is rumoured that on Saturday, the 14th ult., at eleven o'clock at night, the two men quarrelled, and they afterwards went to spare land off Oliver-row, to fight. During the course of the affray, Hamer was knocked down, and it is alleged that he was, whilst on the ground, kicked on the head by Bottomley. Hamer, who is employed at the works of Messrs Dobson and Barlow, continued at his employ until Wednesday last, when he complained of serious pains in the head. Mr Garstang, surgeon, was summoned, and on Sunday, Dr. Mackintosh was also called in. The patient, however, gradually sank and died on Monday morning. Bottomley is employed at the mill of Messrs Rostron Brothers, Mill-street.
ON Saturday afternoon the fourth annual athletic sports in connection with the Turton Football Club were held on the club ground, Chapeltown. The sports appear to gain in popularity every year judging from the number of entries from all parts, and the attendance of spectators. The weather was beautifully fine, and enhanced the attractions of the sports. There were between 3,000 and 4,000 people present, and over 230 entries had been made for the various events.
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