25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, June 15, 1972

BRITAIN will have breakfast-time television within a year, an ITV executive forecast today. He outlined a 'bonus' of another 1,000 hours of programmes for the coming year, and said 'I should be very surprised if a year from now you didn't find breakfast television.'

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, June 16, 1947

ONE visits some towns especially to see their older parts in an effort to reconstruct for oneself, with the help of the old property, the scene of some bygone day. Bolton, at first sight, offers little in this direction. The demolition of property on Old Hall-st. South, however, has recalled to several people the old courtyards which were scattered about Deansgate, Bradshawgate, Spring Gardens, Howell Croft, and Old Hall-st. until they were condemned and destroyed in the first 30 years of this century. These courts sprang up during the last century in the days when professional men lived and worked in Acresfield and Bowker's Row, when the shop windows on Deansgate and Bradshawgate had little frontage, and horse trams ambled along the narrow, cobbled streets.

125 YEARS AGO

THIS morning, at the Borough Court, a widow, named Esther was brought up on a charge of having stolen three sheets from the lodging house of Julius Corsar, 15, King-street. Mr Rutter (Hall and Rutter) prosecuted. When the prisoner was apprehended and searched, three pawn tickets were found concealed in her hair. Inquiries had been made at the shops where the articles had been pledged, and it transpired that she was not the person who had pledged them, therefore there was no evidence against her, and she was discharged.

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