25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, October 22, 1971

BRITAIN'S publicans should be allowed to choose their own opening hours, between 10am and midnight, the Brewers' Society recommended today, with a minimum of six hours a day.

BOLTON medical research campaigner, Mr Tom Lever, has had to give up his attempt on the world non-stop walking record of 218 miles . . . a mere 20 miles short of victory. He had covered the 198 miles round Leverhulme Park by last night, then his legs refused to go any further . . .

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, October 22, 1946

FOUR houses have been completed on the Cameron-st. estate by the Bolton Corporation, making 11 in all, and from now on all houses should be completed at the rate of four a week, the pace accelerating within a month so that all the 50 houses scheduled for this site should be completed by the end of the year. Other building is going on at the Breightmet Hall site, Lever Edge-lane, Top-o'th-Brow and the Eastfield Estate.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, October 21, 1871

THIS morning, the remains of the late Mr John Brandwood, jun., solicitor, were interred in the Church of England ground at the Bolton cemetery. The funeral cortege left the Commercial Inn, Market-square, about half past eleven o'clock. The body was enclosed in a patent metallic sanitary coffin, with an engraved breastplate, bearing the name, age and date of death of the deceased. The Rev. H. Haworth read the services within the mortuary chapel and at the graveside in a most impressive manner. The arrangements of the funeral were efficiently carried out by Messrs Constantine Brothers, Deansgate.

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