25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, May 14, 1973

THE Bolton-based Chevron motor racing team scored an outstanding success when their cars took four of the first five placed in the Formula 5000 championship race at Oulton Park yesterday. The winner was Teddy Pilette from Belgium, with Peter Gethin in second place. Steve Thompson was third and Tony Deane fifth. All four were driving the Formula 5000 B24. The cars at built at the Chorley Old Road workshop of Chevron Cars, Ltd., and designed by managing director Mr Derek Bennett.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, May 13, 1948

FISH stories are just as tall in the United States as anywhere else. A Georgia biologist, Mr O. Fletcher, does his fishing the easy way. He stands on the bank and shoots them with bow and arrow. But Mr Edward Kaspar does his the hard way. He was standing on the bank of the Grand River, Michigan, when a fish leapt out and bit him on the finger. Undaunted, he waded into the water and began swinging his fists. He connected. He struggled up the river bank carrying a dazed 40lb. catfish.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, May 14, 1873

THE Chadwick Statue is to be erected in the Town Hall-square. The General Purposes Committee have anticipated the storm, and made a concession, in the hope of averting further public indignation. Last night they passed a resolution giving permission for the Statue to be placed in the Square; but, unfortunately, they did not end there. They hampered the concession by ungraceful and impracticable conditions. In the first place the Statue must not be unveiled until after the opening of the Town Hall. Why should the Statue not be seen by the 250,000 people who may crowd the streets of Bolton on the occasion of the Royal visit? The Corporation are decorating the Square, but they will place upon it no more interesting or attractive object than would be found in the Chadwick Statue.

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