25 YEARS AG

From the Evening News, September 16, 1971

WHEN Alf Holden emigrates to Australia next week he will take with him his wife Mavis - who is not half the woman she was. In 12 short months Mavis, of Randolph Road, Kearsley. has got her weight down from 19st 4lb to only 8st 11lb. A year ago the couple applied to go to Australia with their son Kevin, but emigration authorities turned them down because Mavis was too fat and they told her the journey could kill her. During the last year Mavis has lived mainly on fruit, vegetables and lean meat. When the family reapplied for permission to emigrate "they just couldn't believe I was the same person." 50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, September 16, 1946

ELECTRICAL engineers throughout the country have been warned not to apply for the post of Bolton Borough electrical engineer. The position becomes vacant at the end of the year, and is being advertised at a salary of £1,600 a year. The advertisement appears in current trade papers, but some of them also carry an advertisement which virtually asks electrical engineers to boycott Bolton because, says the Associated Municipal and Electrical Engineers and the Electrical Power Engineers' Association, the salary is well below what should be paid for the post. 125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, September 15, 1871

AT the Accrington Petty Sessions yesterday, a young man, named John Parkinson, was charged with profane swearing on Sunday evening. The information was laid under the Act 19 George 11, cap. 21, sec.1, and the police sergeant proved that the defendant 'took God's name in vain', and swore three profane oaths as the sergeant was taking a man to the police station on Sunday evening. The magistrates fined the defendant 3s, being a shilling for each oath, and ordered him to pay costs; and intimated that they had instructed the policemen to bring before them other offenders under this Act.

Converted for the new archive on 14 July 2000. Some images and formatting may have been lost in the conversion.