25 YEARS AGO

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THE catering trade believe that an announcement either abolishing or easing the Order dealing with the 5s (25p) maximum charge for meals in hotels, restaurants and catering establishments will be made in the near future.

THE nuisance being caused to residents in the Back-o'th'-Bank area by grit, coal dust, and vapour from the power station is regarded as so serious that the matter is being dealt with immediately at an estimated cost of £12,000. Hundreds of local residents recently submitted complaints to the Council about the nuisance.

125 YEARS AGO

TOMORROW the fifth Railway from Bolton will be opened. It is now forty-four years since - the date being January 1st, 1831 - the Bolton and Leigh Railway was opened, bringing this town into connection with Manchester and Liverpool Railway. Then in May, 1838, the Bolton and Manchester (Lancashire and Yorkshire) line was opened; in June, 1843, the Bolton and Preston; and in June, 1848, the Bolton and Blackburn. Nothing further has been done in the shape of new railway enterprise for this town during the last twenty-five years, if we accept the fact of communication via Tyldesley; but properly speaking that line is one from Manchester to Wigan, and Bolton had little consideration in the matter. The new line from Bolton to Manchester (London and North-Western) which will be opened to passenger traffic tomorrow, is, therefore, the first new line from this town constructed for a quarter of a century past. The new line does propose two trains daily to, and the same number from London; but the time required for the journey is unsatisfactory. A passenger from London may reach Wigan in five hours and 30 minutes; but to come to Bolton by the new line requires seven hours and twenty-five minutes. Why should not Bolton be served as well as Wigan? It is clear that a line is still required which will bring us into more direct communication with the south.

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