From the Evening News, November 16, 1904: THERE is quite a cosmopolitan air about the Drill Hall in Silverwell Street, Bolton, where a missionary exhibition and sale of work opens today and will be continued for 10 days.

The event is one of considerable importance and it is organised in connection with the work of several societies. The exhibition has a three-fold object - to arouse and increase interest in missionary work among all who visit it, to give them a more accurate knowledge of the present needs of the heathen world and the past triumphs of the Gospel, and to stimulate them to greater earnestness in prayer, study, liberality and to personal service in the missionary cause.

EIGHT members of the Lancashire Association of Change Ringers met at Worsley Parish Church on Monday night and rang a peal of Steadman Triples, consisting of 5,040 changes, in about three hours, in honour of the 32nd birthday of Lord Brackley, eldest son of Lord Ellesmere.

AN extraordinary vestry meeting at St James' Church, New Bury, accepted the generous offer of Mrs Jas. Fletcher of Rawson Street, Farnworth, to build a new vestry in memory of her husband.

From the Evening News, November 16, 1954: MR Albert Taylor, President of Bolton Master Bakers' Association, told members at a meeting in Bolton Technical College last night that bakers throughout the country had been forced to close down since the war finished.In 1953, he said, 3,650 fewer bakers had claimed the bread subsidy than in 1945 and 315 fewer were claiming the subsidy than in 1951.'These bakers have been forced to stop baking bread not because of lack of demand, but because it is not economical,' he added.

From the Evening News, November 16, 1979: ACTOR Anthony Booth was seriously ill in hospital today after suffering from severe burns during a mystery fire at his flat in Hampstead Way, North London. Mr Booth, is best known for playing the layabout son-in-law of Alf Garnett in the TV series 'Till Death Do Us Part'.

From the Evening News, November 16, 1994: MP Tom Sackville is demanding a meeting with road minister John Watts to discuss plans to remove Bolton from motorway signs. The Highways Agency is planning to rename the motorway loop around Manchester the M60. And Mr Sackville, MP for Bolton West, was horrified when he learned that signs for Bolton will be replaced with 'North Manchester.'

A STALWART of the Women's Voluntary Service in Bolton has died at the age of 93.Mrs Evelyn Warr was known for her sterling work for the local WVS - now the WRVS - during the last war. A former borough organiser, she helped prepare Watermillock, off Crompton Way, for wartime evacuees and was a familiar figure in the blitzed cities of Manchester and Liverpool, rising at 4.30am to get canteens going amid the rubble.