A COUNCIL advertisement in the BEN on February 4, asks for Neighbourhood Wardens for Deane, Great Lever and Hulton Lane.

On phoning, I asked the manager if she knew where Hulton Lane was? "Just off Wigan Road," she answered, presumably now knowing it is in Deane. She added: "We go off the Housing Department designation."

Around two years ago I asked the 3D's office why they referred to Deane Road, as Deane. She did not know. On my pointing where Deane was, she responded "Oh you are going off political boundaries."

Whichever boundaries you use, Municipal, Parliamentary etc, Deane Road is NOT in Deane.

An ordnance survey map 1908, Geographia map 1955, a more recent AZ ALL indicate Deane Road is in Gilnow area, the OS map shows Gilnow as a sub-division of Derby.

Other clues as to the location of Deane are -- Deane PO, Wigan Road, as are Deane Conservative Club and Deane Congregational Church; Deane Church; Junction Road, Deane Golf Club, off Junction Road; Deane Clough alongside Deane Church. What was Deane Weaving Mill just off Hulton Lane and Dean Schools (2). The Town Hall does have a mania for moving areas. A neighbour once said: "Where are all these shops in Middle Brook?" The real Middle Brook, for 100s of years, is a stretch of the Croal River from roughly Gilnow Lane to Lostock Station. Even the maps show it, not 4.5 miles away in Horwich.

Now, I think I've discovered the method in this council's ample madness, and the reason for killing Bolton with all the road narrowing. It looks like they are planning to move Bolton! But where to? Spain, South of France, Pakistan! All the sun, no more like Siberia, so they can learn the skill of clearing snow.

No doubt most OAPs would have preferred this council's "Re-naming and Moving Department" to have been around in the 1930s. German bombers would not have found Great Britain, we'd be somewhere near the North Pole.

Does any other council allow its employees to make such decisions?

Geoff Pollitt

Towers Avenue

Bolton