25 YEARS AGO

NO Government has yet been formed since the General Election, but it appears that Mr Wilson may be called upon by the Queen this evening, thereby ending the constitutional crisis, with no Party having an overall majority.

Two hundred Britons were feared killed today in the world's worst air disaster after a plane crashed in a wood 25 miles from Paris.

50 YEARS AGO

ON some of the Bolton housing estates of the future there will be hostels for the old and the disabled people of the town who are in need of care and attention. Bolton Housing Committee has provisionally allocated three sites on housing estates, and it is proposed that the hostels, which, it is hoped, will be erected by March, 1954, will house 30-35 people. There is also a proposal under consideration for the adaption of a portion of Smithills Hall, which was purchased by the Council some years ago.

125 YEARS AGO

THREE SILVER MEDALS

awarded to

JULIAN

Carriage manufacturer, Bow Street, Bolton, for superiority of Design, Material and Workmanship. Silver medal for his Landau, with self-adjusting head wings, at the Liverpool and Manchester Agricultural Show held at Bolton, 1873

Silver medal for his noiseless miniature Brougham

Silver medal for his Park Phaeton, with patent appliance to obviate the necessity of getting over the hind wheel, at the same show, held at Chester, 1873.

Every kind of Carriage, State and Private, built to order from the newest designs. Repairs done cheaply, promptly and well.

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