10 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, November 18, 1999 A MUM claims she has not been able to let her son play in the garden since he was born.

There is no fencing in Lynn Ball’s back garden and she says that unless she keeps an eye on him at all times it would be easy for young son, Kyle, to wander off and on to busy nearby roads. Her MP, David Crausby, says the situation is “unacceptable”.

Mrs Ball, 24, says she has been promised fencing since she moved into her Pimlott Road, Hall i’th’ Wood, home 18 months ago but despite contacting her local housing estate office several times, nothing has been done.

25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, November 17, 1984 FIVE former jobless people hope to cut Bolton’s bulging dole queues by helping to create 100 new jobs within a year. The shot in the arm for the jobless could come with the formation of an advice centre for people interested in setting up their own businesses. The Neighbourhood Economic Development Unit will attempt to tackle the problems in the black spot of Derby Ward, on the outskirts of the town centre. The area has suffered from the recession more than most. The last census put the unemployment rate at 41.5 per cent. The group is the idea of five people working on a Manpower Services Commission scheme with Bolton Council’s youth and Community Service Department. As the MSC scheme is about to end they are pooling their talents to form the advisory unit.

50 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, November 18, 1959 THERE are no fireplaces in Bolton Corporation’s newest block of flats built on the old vicarage site in Beverley-rd., off Chorley New-rd.

Instead, the floors are electrically heated and there is a thermostatic control in each flat — so that tenants can have as much warmth as they like! The block of flats is called Beverley House, at the junction of Beverley-rd. and Lincoln-rd. They have the distinction of being the first Corporation flats in Bolton to have floor central heating — but they will not be the last! More block of flats in the School Hill area will have the same type of installation.

100 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, November 18, 1909 With the object of reducing the indebtedness of the Egerton Cricket Club, caused by the erection of a new pavilion at a cost of £125, a bazaar was opened this afternoon in the Congregational School, by Mrs. Henry Deakin.

The project was launched three months ago, and the enthusiastic way in which the friends and the members of the club had worked was reflected in the well-filled stalls, which were three in number — a drapery, toy and hardware, and refreshment stalls.