25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, December 21, 1973

LONGWORTH Manor, the 300-years-old house at Longsight Park, Turton, will be preserved. Bolton District Parks and Recreation Committee last night agreed to join Turton Council in a joint project to make part of the 12-room house habitable. A tenant will then be installed to discourage further vandalism. The committee also backed Farnworth's plan for a ski-slope in the Croal Valley. A report on cost and profitability is to be prepared.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, December 22, 1948

AN unusual award offered in our advertisement columns to the finder of a stray cat, with fur missing on its left side, will no doubt arouse the interest of housewives who are urgently in need of sugar for Christmas parties. The inducement offered to the finder is two pounds of sugar, and one wonders whether the prospect of obtaining this unusual prize will tempt any mothers to send their children out looking for the missing cat.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, December 22, 1873

ABOUT eleven o'clock on Sunday night, a cabman named Philip Rigby, No 17 cab, Bolton, was taking a party of four men in his cab to 'Twists', or the Hare and Hounds, Breightmet, and when nearing Tong-with-Haulgh his cab passed over something, and immediately afterwards he heard a scream. He at once stopped his horse, got off his box, and found a man lying in the road. He got the man up, and ascertained his name to be Aaron Fowler, Heaton Brow, Middle Hulton. He appeared to be seriously bruised with being run over, and the cabman considerately took him to his home.

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