25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, June 19, 1972

A BIG pay bonanza is on its way for Britain's state-owned industry bosses. They are to get £60 to £66-a-week increases under the recommendation by a special review body. The massive rises will put nationalised industry chairmen on £24,000-a-year mark.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, June 19, 1947

SIR, - Trees in all the parks are being swung on until the branches break. The broken branches are then thrown down and left. Why can't we have posters put up in all the parks reminding people that they can be prosecuted for wilful damage? A very old tree on Park View-rd. side of the Rumworth park has been stripped. A few weeks ago a rhododendron tree was uprooted and then left. To try to reprimand children when they are playing on these trees is to get 40 words for one. Wake up, Parks Committee. Yours, etc., Lover of Nature.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, June 19, 1872

LAST evening, about seven o'clock, a fatal accident happened at the No 2 Doe Pit, belonging to the Darcy Lever Coal Company, to a man named William Smith, aged 33 years, and residing at Hacking-lane, Darcy Lever.

The deceased, at the time named, was following his occupation in the pit, preparing for the colliers to work in the morning, when a heavy fall of coal took place from the roof, so completely burying him that it was midnight before he was extricated - he being then dead, and scarcely having a whole bone in his body.

He leaves a wife and one child to lament his loss, and what makes the matter all the more painful to Mrs Smith is that she is close upon her accouchment, and only a few months ago experienced deep sorrow in having a fine child drowned in the river in Darcy Lever.

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