25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

October 30, 1971

NORTHERNERS are often treated on television like some sort of rare animal. 'Look North' even goes so far as to have Stuart Hall providing regular instruction on the Lancashire language to help strangers interpret our grunts and utterances. Now another North-based programme, 'Newsday' is having a 'safari' to Cemetery Road, Kearsley. The object of the mission to to discover what the people of the North of England are really like. 50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

October 30, 1946

THREE British soldiers were killed and 11 others wounded today when Jewish terrorists in ambush on the Mount Scopus road outside Jerusalem detonated a landmine under a lorry in which the men were travelling. This afternoon, British troops were rushed to emergency stations as three bombs exploded in Jerusalem's main railway station, wrecking part of the station.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

October 30, 1871

MUFFLED bells were rung on the Parish Church, and St. George's, last evening, in memory of the late Mr Thomas Fletcher, who was seized with paralysis whilst at practice in the bell chamber of the former, last Tuesday evening, and who died at his residence in Back Lark-street, on Sunday morning. The deceased was the oldest ringer in Bolton, and acted as one of the eight on the occasion of ringing the closing peal in the old Parish Church prior to the demolition of that venerable edifice. The deceased was in the 65th year of his age.

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