A CONTROVERSIAL plan for a supermarket and car park on land close to Burnmoor Road, Codale Road and Deepdale Road, Breightmet, has been given the go-ahead by Bolton Council, if suitable landscaping is provided. The decision followed years of agitation to provide shops in the area by some residents, and recent objections to the present plan by others.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, March 30, 1949

'TO close down farms which should be helping us to live, seems unpardonable to me, and hardly worthy of us to keep quiet under such procedure,' declared Canon Chronell at yesterday's meeting of Bolton Education Committee.

He was supporting Counc. Mrs Ryley, who had questioned whether it was necessary to use 55 acres of land at Heaton for secondary school and playing fields which would entail the closing down of one farm and the curtailing of the activities of another.

Canon Chronell continued: 'We are mopping up all the country which should provide us with cattle and vegetables, for school purposes. We can't get beef from Argentina, and we can't turn vegetarians if we use all the land for school purposes.'

125 YEARS AGO

IN the course of a few weeks the long-looked for new line between Manchester and Bolton on the London and North Western system, will be opened for traffic, and will meet a great public requirement by the supply of additional means of railway communication with the busy cottonopolis, as well as the opening up of the somewhat obscure field of commercial industry in the district of Little Hulton, and affording a ready means of access for the pleasure seeker to the beautiful and charming scenery of Worsley. To those passengers who have been compelled when visiting Manchester to choose the uninviting route via Moses Gate, or the depressing and cheerless route to Tyldesley, the new line will be a great boon. 25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

March 29, 1974

A CONTROVERSIAL plan for a supermarket and car park on land close to Burnmoor Road, Codale Road and Deepdale Road, Breightmet, has been given the go-ahead by Bolton Council, if suitable landscaping is provided. The decision followed years of agitation to provide shops in the area by some residents, and recent objections to the present plan by others.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

March 30, 1949

'TO close down farms which should be helping us to live, seems unpardonable to me, and hardly worthy of us to keep quiet under such procedure,' declared Canon Chronell at yesterday's meeting of Bolton Education Committee.

He was supporting Counc. Mrs Ryley, who had questioned whether it was necessary to use 55 acres of land at Heaton for secondary school and playing fields which would entail the closing down of one farm and the curtailing of the activities of another.

Canon Chronell continued: 'We are mopping up all the country which should provide us with cattle and vegetables, for school purposes. We can't get beef from Argentina, and we can't turn vegetarians if we use all the land for school purposes.'

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

March 30, 1874

IN the course of a few weeks the long-looked for new line between Manchester and Bolton on the London and North Western system, will be opened for traffic, and will meet a great public requirement by the supply of additional means of railway communication with the busy cottonopolis, as well as the opening up of the somewhat obscure field of commercial industry in the district of Little Hulton, and affording a ready means of access for the pleasure seeker to the beautiful and charming scenery of Worsley. To those passengers who have been compelled when visiting Manchester to choose the uninviting route via Moses Gate, or the depressing and cheerless route to Tyldesley, the new line will be a great boon. 25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

March 29, 1974

A CONTROVERSIAL plan for a supermarket and car park on land close to Burnmoor Road, Codale Road and Deepdale Road, Breightmet, has been given the go-ahead by Bolton Council, if suitable landscaping is provided. The decision followed years of agitation to provide shops in the area by some residents, and recent objections to the present plan by others.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

March 30, 1949

'TO close down farms which should be helping us to live, seems unpardonable to me, and hardly worthy of us to keep quiet under such procedure,' declared Canon Chronell at yesterday's meeting of Bolton Education Committee.

He was supporting Counc. Mrs Ryley, who had questioned whether it was necessary to use 55 acres of land at Heaton for secondary school and playing fields which would entail the closing down of one farm and the curtailing of the activities of another.

Canon Chronell continued: 'We are mopping up all the country which should provide us with cattle and vegetables, for school purposes. We can't get beef from Argentina, and we can't turn vegetarians if we use all the land for school purposes.'

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

March 30, 1874

IN the course of a few weeks the long-looked for new line between Manchester and Bolton on the London and North Western system, will be opened for traffic, and will meet a great public requirement by the supply of additional means of railway communication with the busy cottonopolis, as well as the opening up of the somewhat obscure field of commercial industry in the district of Little Hulton, and affording a ready means of access for the pleasure seeker to the beautiful and charming scenery of Worsley. To those passengers who have been compelled when visiting Manchester to choose the uninviting route via Moses Gate, or the depressing and cheerless route to Tyldesley, the new line will be a great boon.

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