25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, April 3, 1973

BRITAIN'S miners today voted overwhelmingly against industrial action in the ballot on their pay claim. The vote means that union leaders will now go back to the National Coal Board on the present offer. Originally they refused to agree with the board over a third week's holiday in addition to rises of £2.29 a week, and pensions doubled to £3 a week.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, April 2, 1948

ANY doubts there may have been that the new Vicar of Bolton, when appointed, might have nowhere to live, are dispelled by a statement by the present incumbent Canon Davidson, who leaves next week, in this month's issue of the Parish Church magazine.

The present vicarage in Castle-st., he says, was no doubt justly regarded as a very fine house when it was bought for its present purpose in 1887. But today it is a 'white elephant', and an inordinate burden on the vicar's wife and the vicar's purse. No man would willingly ask his wife to undertake the care of such a house without servants, and no man would willingly live in it on less than £2,000 a year.

However, he says that there is now a good chance of disposing of the present vicarage, and buying another house which will be much more reasonable.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, April 3, 1873

A ROYAL visit to Bolton is at length in prospect. Such an event as the presence of a member of the Royal Family in the City-le-Moors is, we need hardly say, exceedingly rare. Four years ago the Prince and Princess of Wales came to Worsley, but not to Bolton. Nearly twenty-two years ago (October 1851) the Queen was at Worsley, and Prince Albert took the opportunity of paying a flying visit to Bolton and to Dean Mills. The approaching event, however, is a Royal favour conferred upon Bolton direct, as the Prince will come to open our new Town Hall. The visit will, in all probability, take place in the month of June.

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