25 YEARS AGO

A SCHEME to complete the pedestrian precinct along Bolton's Newport Street at a cost of £27,000 to the Borough Council has been scrapped because of an economy drive. And in talks with the Borough's Director of Finance, Mr J.M. Marriott, the Bolton Metropolitan Area Ratepayers' Action Group says that among the economies should be the banning of civic functions and other 'prestige' activities, until the Council can balance its books.

BOLTON Wanderers made a loss of £27,400 last season following a profit of more than £11,000 in their promotion season. The directors blame repairs to the stands, soaring costs, modernisation of equipment and an adverse balance over ingoing and outgoing transfers for the loss.

50 YEARS AGO

SIR,- I wonder how much longer we, in Bolton, are to contend with the chaotic conditions at the Great Moor-st. branch of the Ministry of National Insurance. This office has been in existence for some considerable time yet the arrangements for interviewing and investigating claims are such that it is far more expeditious (and much safer) to conduct one's business through the post, than to battle through the disorganized hordes of would-be claimants to the harassed individuals behind the counter. Yours etc., Claimant.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, September 19, 1874

AT the Borough Court this morning, Thomas Greenhalgh, engineer, Nine House-lane, was summoned for working a steam locomotive in Bridge-street at 9.30am on Tuesday morning, contrary to the orders or regulations made by the Town Council. It was the first prosecution in Bolton under the Locomotive Act, 1865, which authorises the Council to make regulations as to the hours during which locomotives were to pass through its district. An Order in Council was made, and advertised in the papers, arranging that locomotives should travel the district between the hours of twelve o'clock at night and nine o'clock in the morning, the speed not to exceed two miles an hour. A fine of 2s 6d without costs was imposed.

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