25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, Jenuary 6, 1974

THREE hundred workers at the Dinasafe Seating engineering works, Spa Road, Bolton, walked out today after a dispute over payment of Saturday overtime rates. The men left the firm's Gilnow Works after they had been refused payment of overtime during the three day week, although other firms were paying it. More than 200 workers at the firm's Atlas Works, Mornington Road, are expected to join the walk-out.

50 YEARS AGO

SINCE the war ended, Bolton people have been booking their annual holiday earlier in the New Year than ever before. Already people have booked for tours to Hastings, Folkstone and the south coast, with Bournemouth the most popular resort to early in the holiday booking stakes. There have been many inquiries at travel agents' offices about holidays in Switzerland, and Continental motor tours are proving popular.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, January 6, 1874

ON Thursday, at eleven o'clock, a man named Robert Wilde was engaged in an excavation in a field belonging to Samuel Hollins and Co., Sharples, and whilst throwing out the clay for the purpose of making bricks, he came in contact with a coffin, which, on being opened, was found to contain the skeleton of a full-grown human being. The coffin was in a good state of preservation, and the lid bore the initials 'A.W., 46, 1793'. On enquiries being made by Police-constable Eastham of the oldest inhabitants of the village, it was ascertained that about the year 1793 a man named Alexander Ward committed suicide by cutting his throat, and, in running out of his house, he shouted out, 'Bury me where I leet'. This appeared to have been done, and the place near received its name as 'Strike Fold'.

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