25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

January 11, 1974

SERIOUS shortages of food and household goods are hitting shops and supermarkets in the Bolton area. The goods you may have difficulty in buying include coffee beans, leading brands of tinned soup, vegetables and baked beans, salt, breakfast cereals, alcoholic and soft drinks, small tins of several foods, fresh tomatoes, toilet rolls, paper tissues, soap powder, certain types of pan cleaners, some brands of shampoo. The three-day week, the shortage of bottles and problems in the packaging and steel industries caused by world shortages of raw materials have all been blamed for the present difficulties.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

January 12, 1979

SIR, - I have just travelled home by special bus from the De Havilland works. We must have travelled at nearly 40mph along Chorley New-road, overtaking all traffic. On asking the conductor why we were travelling so fast, he said they were due at Dobson and Barlow's works, Bradley Fold, in less than half an hour. Is this the way our Transport authorities encourage safety on the roads. - Yours, etc. Safety First.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

January 12, 1874

PASSENGERS from or to Bolton have reason to feel extremely uncomfortable at the startling evidence elicited by Captain Tyler, in investigating the causes of the recent double collision at Gilnow. The revelations made at the inquiry on Saturday, regarding the everyday operations of the Railway service on the Lancashire and Yorkshire line at Bolton, are enough to alarm the most careless about such matters, and positively to shock timid people. After perusing the statements made by the various witnesses, we feel that it is little less than miraculous that a harvest of broken limbs and mangled bodies is not a daily occurrence. If the Lancashire and Yorkshire company would avoid the stigma of carrying on a heavy traffic at the perpetual peril of human life, the state of things now made known must be immediately reformed.

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