History of the BEN
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Festive Market Hall
Beautiful Belmont
‘Piggy’ players enter arena
Changing landscape of the ’30s
On the Bolton road to a better surface
Sweet way to earn a living
Pupils debate nuclear arms
Students serve up fine dining
Facelift for valley landscape
A thoroughly modern garage
Supermarket for shopkeepers
Street clearance in full flow
The birth of a scouting store
Drinking to a real ale publication
Swinging time for children
Scant reward for hero children
Young dance medallists
Days of the corner shop
Youngsters in charity mood
Band tunes up down mill
In full song at the opera
New minibus is blessed by priest
Classes take action
School reunion plans
Days of the chimney pot skyline
First Karri Kot manufacturers
Wanderer Wyn’s good old days
Ian’s giant Meccano creation
From our archives
A cast of many
From our archives
Town criers beat the rain
Hotel steeped in history
BEN Editor Andrew Smith remembers The White Hot Years
A new name for your favourite paper
Who has edited the BEN?
The £17m move to Wingates
Important dates in the history of the BEN
Les Gent looks back on a life of headlines
Air crash on Winter Hill kills 34 in 1958
Deadly fire in club kills 19 in May 1961
Coronation Day 1953
Bolton Wanderers win the FA Cup in 1958
Coronation Day 1937
The first ever Cup Final at Wembley in 1923
Pages that made history
Train crash on March 18, 1918
VE Day street party, May, 1945
Crush at Burnden Park on March 9, 1946
King George V and Queen Mary in Bolton, 1913
Bolton Town Hall fire in 1981
The most famous scoreline in history