25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

September 11, 1974

OLD age pensions of up to £25 a week for a single person and £31 for a married couple. That was the election ace served up this afternoon by Social Services Minister Mrs Barbara Castle, with a revolutionary new strategy for earnings related and inflation-proof pensions. The aim: Complete abolition of poverty in old age.

BOLTON is to 'twin' with the historic West German town of Paderborn, but will not commit itself to spend money on expensive ceremonies or celebrations. There will then be a three-way link between Bolton, Paderborn and the French town of Le Mans.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

September 10, 1949

SIR,- We have read a lot recently about removing the Wellington Yard smell. Just before the war we were supposed to be having the so-called tippler lavatories removed. I am speaking for the tenants of a row of houses at Deane where half of the tipplers don't work, so we have a Wellington Yard of our own. Houses on the new estates have two fresh water lavatories. We do not begrudge them, but think that as ratepayers of long standing we deserve a little consideration. - Yours, etc., A Resident.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

September 11, 1874

ON Wednesday morning, at Messrs John Harwood and Sons mill, Great Lever, Henry Sheffield, residing at 5, Whittaker-street, met with a very serious accident. Sheffield, who is a man of over thirty years of age, was employed as a spinner, and it is supposed that immediately before the accident occurred -about half past nine o'clock - he had occasion to use his screwkey to do something at one of the mules. The key would appear to have become fast in the rim of the mule, the consequence that the rim was split in two. One part of the rim then caught Sheffield a most terrific blow on the forehead, smashing in the skull and knocking him violently down. Whilst down, the other mule ran over one of his toes. The injuries that Sheffield has received are very serious, and it was doubtful this morning whether he would recover.

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