From the Evening News, January 25, 1993: GOALKEEPER Keith Brannigan was the hero in Bolton's 2-0 FA Cup victory over Wolves yesterday - the second giant-killing act after the tremendous victory over Liverpool 12 days ago.

GALES wreaked havoc and caused thousands of pounds worth of damage throughout Bolton and Leigh over the weekend. Gusts of up to 70mph were recorded, bringing chimney stacks, walls, trees and fences crashing down.

25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, January 25, 1978

FLY-tippers are rapidly spoiling a recently created beauty spot near Little Lever. Under cover of darkness they are dumping industrial and domestic waste in the Irwell Valley on popular footpaths and picnic area. Now one dedicated walker, Mrs Olwyn Collinge, of Aintree Road, Little Lever, plans to start a campaign against the people responsible. She claims that furniture, old clothes, industrial packaging waste and even a huge pile of chicken innards have been tipped in the area.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, January 24, 1953

EVIDENCE of the unequal battle fought by the beautifiers, against our heritage of filth and grime, is only too obvious just now in the condition of the town-centre lawns and shrubbery.

Many hours of fog have added their film of dirt to the regular deposit of industry, to render neutral the colours of nature and to create the phenomenon of grey grass and greyer evergreens.

A layer of smut covers the Corporation gardens and makes them, if not hideous, at least unlovely. Worse still, the decorative conifers so hopefully placed in tubs outside one hotel porch appear to have been dipped in the soot-box.

Can Bolton really be brightened? One begins to wonder when one sees what the ravages of the weather can do. The best we can say of these aids to beauty at the moment is that by a miracle they live.

100 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, January 25, 1903

AT a meeting of Barmouth Council, the medical officer said he thought the Council should endeavour to put down the custom that prevailed in the district of spitting in public places, such as the railway station. The habit was objectionable anywhere, but doubly so in a health resort.

Mr Evan Jones, a non-smoker, suggested that to put down spitting a crusade against smokers should be instituted. The medical officer: "I am very fond of smoking myself, but I never spit. It is simply a habit." Mr W. Owen: "What about chewing?" The medical officer: "That is simply awful, It is both filthy and beastly, and also most unhealthy to the chewer and those who come into contact with him." The Surveyor: "I never spit, and I am told that is why I am free from indigestion." (Laughter). The report was referred to a committee with a view to adopting a bye-law against spitting.

10 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, January 25, 1993

GOALKEEPER Keith Brannigan was the hero in Bolton's 2-0 FA Cup victory over Wolves yesterday - the second giant-killing act after the tremendous victory over Liverpool 12 days ago.

GALES wreaked havoc and caused thousands of pounds worth of damage throughout Bolton and Leigh over the weekend. Gusts of up to 70mph were recorded, bringing chimney stacks, walls, trees and fences crashing down.

25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, January 25, 1978

FLY-tippers are rapidly spoiling a recently created beauty spot near Little Lever. Under cover of darkness they are dumping industrial and domestic waste in the Irwell Valley on popular footpaths and picnic area. Now one dedicated walker, Mrs Olwyn Collinge, of Aintree Road, Little Lever, plans to start a campaign against the people responsible. She claims that furniture, old clothes, industrial packaging waste and even a huge pile of chicken innards have been tipped in the area.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, January 24, 1953

EVIDENCE of the unequal battle fought by the beautifiers, against our heritage of filth and grime, is only too obvious just now in the condition of the town-centre lawns and shrubbery.

Many hours of fog have added their film of dirt to the regular deposit of industry, to render neutral the colours of nature and to create the phenomenon of grey grass and greyer evergreens.

A layer of smut covers the Corporation gardens and makes them, if not hideous, at least unlovely. Worse still, the decorative conifers so hopefully placed in tubs outside one hotel porch appear to have been dipped in the soot-box.

Can Bolton really be brightened? One begins to wonder when one sees what the ravages of the weather can do. The best we can say of these aids to beauty at the moment is that by a miracle they live.

100 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, January 25, 1903

AT a meeting of Barmouth Council, the medical officer said he thought the Council should endeavour to put down the custom that prevailed in the district of spitting in public places, such as the railway station. The habit was objectionable anywhere, but doubly so in a health resort.

Mr Evan Jones, a non-smoker, suggested that to put down spitting a crusade against smokers should be instituted. The medical officer: "I am very fond of smoking myself, but I never spit. It is simply a habit." Mr W. Owen: "What about chewing?" The medical officer: "That is simply awful, It is both filthy and beastly, and also most unhealthy to the chewer and those who come into contact with him." The Surveyor: "I never spit, and I am told that is why I am free from indigestion." (Laughter). The report was referred to a committee with a view to adopting a bye-law against spitting.