25 YEARS AGO

BOLTON and Horwich are in opposition about a plan to build a big new wholesale and retail supermarket off Mansell Way, Horwich. Horwich Council want the development to go ahead in some form, but Bolton Planning Committee fears it would ruin established shopping centres in this area.

BOLTON Wanderers, in front of a 42,000 crowd, hammered Manchester City 3-0 in the League Cup at Burnden Park last night.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, October 7, 1946

TODAY omnibuses replaced tramcars on the Horwich route. The last 'N' tram ran last night.

HOW typical of her sex, says a man, was the woman who was overheard remarking to her companion this morning: "We were only talking; we weren't saying anything."

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, October 6, 1871

SIR, - From your paper of Tuesday evening I perceive that the Rev. Joseph Posnett, in the Farnworth Wesleyan Chapel, made some very severe strictures on the conduct of the people at the last "wakes". As the rev. gentleman has only been resident for 13 months, he should be challenged for public proof of the assertions made. Of his own personal knowledge, Mr Posnett knew little of the fair beyond seeing young women going into a public house, and whom he very uncharitably denounced. I deny Mr Posnett's assertions, and I do so on the ground of careful public observation of the last fair and former "wakes", backed by the opinion of the police, public officials and the press. At former "wakes" there used to be racing and all kinds of gambling, in addition to drinking, but at the last fair there was no racing, no gambling, only one case of pocket picking, not a single charge of drunkenness preferred by the police, and not a public house or beerhouse reported. - Yours respectfully, A Farnworthian.

BOLTON and Horwich are in opposition about a plan to build a big new wholesale and retail supermarket off Mansell Way, Horwich. Horwich Council want the development to go ahead in some form, but Bolton Planning Committee fears it would ruin established shopping centres in this area.

BOLTON Wanderers, in front of a 42,000 crowd, hammered Manchester City 3-0 in the League Cup at Burnden Park last night.

TODAY omnibuses replaced tramcars on the Horwich route. The last 'N' tram ran last night.

HOW typical of her sex, says a man, was the woman who was overheard remarking to her companion this morning: "We were only talking; we weren't saying anything."

SIR, - From your paper of Tuesday evening I perceive that the Rev. Joseph Posnett, in the Farnworth Wesleyan Chapel, made some very severe strictures on the conduct of the people at the last "wakes". As the rev. gentleman has only been resident for 13 months, he should be challenged for public proof of the assertions made. Of his own personal knowledge, Mr Posnett knew little of the fair beyond seeing young women going into a public house, and whom he very uncharitably denounced. I deny Mr Posnett's assertions, and I do so on the ground of careful public observation of the last fair and former "wakes", backed by the opinion of the police, public officials and the press. At former "wakes" there used to be racing and all kinds of gambling, in addition to drinking, but at the last fair there was no racing, no gambling, only one case of pocket picking, not a single charge of drunkenness preferred by the police, and not a public house or beerhouse reported. - Yours respectfully, A Farnworthian.

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