25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, July 2, 1972

ABOUT £43,000 has been spent on modernising a local hospital. But the authorities would be delighted if it never needed to open its doors again. The cash has recently been spent on bringing Ainsworth Smallpox Hospital up to modern standards, and the disease security of the isolation unit, always good, has been improved two or three-fold. Normally there is no-one at the hospital except a caretaker. The last emergency use was in 1966, when 11 smallpox victims were admitted.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, July 2, 1947

ONE hundred industrialists, meeting in Manchester today, to consider a campaign to attract thousands of women to textile and other undermanned industries in the area, heard a woman welfare officer of the Lancashire Cotton Combine, call for a campaign against the 'Unco-operative Husband'. She said that Lancashire housewives were ready to return to the mills provided husbands were made to toe the line. No wife, she urged, should be expected to spend a day in a spinning room or weaving shed to find herself faced with a full evening's housework at the end of it. 'Husbands must agree to wash the baby, dry pots, run the vacuum over the carpet, and take up a duster', she said.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, July 2, 1872

SIR, - I think the remuneration of the Town Clerk quite sufficient for the duties he performs. His bill of costs for going up to London lately on Corporation business was £290, rather a large sum. If all the extras he receives in addition to his salary, which is £600 a year, were summed up, it would be a very large amount. No doubt his private practice is considerable, owing to the position he occupies as Town Clerk. He also receives £50 per annum from the School Board. There are many gentlemen in the town of good position, sound judgement, and experience, who would be glad of the appointment if vacant, and would, I know, devote all their time to the office. Yours, &c., OBSERVER.

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