25 YEARS AGO

NO 'three bob' loaf - yet. For a Government subsidy to keep down the price of bread was announced in the Commons this afternoon by Mrs Shirley Williams, Secretary for Prices and Consumer Protection. So for the present, the standard loaf will still cost 14p.

BRITISH Rail is to be asked by Turton North Parish Council to consider reopening Turton station, which was closed down 13 years ago under the Beeching Plan.

50 YEARS AGO

EVERY day of the week, apart from Saturday, 1,200 consignments of miscellaneous traffic are despatched to all parts of Great Britain by the British Railways from their Manchester-rd. depot at Bolton. A typical consignment would, for instance, consist of cotton and rayon yarns, textiles, leather, paper, paint, machinery parts, and electrical equipment. Loadings are made up to between 60 and 65 destinations each day, the average number of wagons forwarded being 73 each with a load approaching 50 cwt. Most of the cities and large towns in the country are served by direct wagons from Bolton, which are timed to arrive at their destinations on the day following despatch.

125 YEARS AGO

THE woman Wright, of Mossfield-road, Dixon Green, Farnworth, who recently gave birth to a child in one of the Bolton and Farnworth omnibuses, has, in addition to that event, put her neighbours into a state of great concern and anxiety by her strange freaks and ejaculations. From some cause or other, some suppose drink and other grief through the loss of her husband and the singular birth, the woman towards the close of last week showed signs of being demented. On the Thursday she removed her children, and on the following day was perambulating the street in front of her house barefooted. To inquiries about the children, she made the mysterious reply, 'O never mind them, they are happy'. Replies of this character very naturally gave way to the most fearful surmises. Up to midnight on Friday the woman played her pranks, when, considering the peace of the neighbourhood and the woman's welfare, she was removed to the workhouse, where she now remains. From inquiries made, we have reason to believe the woman's children have come to no harm, but that she has disposed of them amongst her relatives.

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