25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, June 9, 1976

SOCCER will cost more at Burnden Park next season. However, it will still be cheaper watching there than at many other grounds. And the Bolton board have managed to keep the minimum price down to 70p - a 5p increase. This will apply only to the Railway Embankment. Prices for the Great Lever End will be 75p, Centre stand seats £1.30, Burnden stand seats £1.30, Wing stand seats £1.10.

DAME Sybil Thorndike, Grand Old Lady of the British theatre, died at her Chelsea flat today, aged 93.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, June 9, 1951

CAMPING holidays are as popular as ever with local folk, especially young people, to whom it offers a low-priced way of spending an open-air holiday. By far the biggest single contingent from Bolton to go camping at holiday week will be that from the Lads' Club. More than 120 boys will spend their holiday at Dalguise, Scotland.

Anglesey is the destination of 50 members of the Catholic Boys' Club. Members of the Bolton Squadron of the Air Training Corps, the Bolton Sea Cadets and the Army Cadet Force, as well as Bolton YMCA and Bolton Boys' Brigade are among other local groups having a holiday under canvas.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, June 9, 1876

THE wheel of time has once more brought round the great Lancashire festivity. It is Whitsuntide, and, as usual, there is an almost total cessation of labour. The mills are silent, the foundry fires cease to roar, and the bang of the mighty Nasmyth no longer deafens the ear.

The toiling thousands of our town have left the scene of their daily labour, and the workers have become for a time pleasure-seekers.

Large numbers of them leave by early trains for the Lancashire coast, for North Wales, and other attractive resorts, to recreate the body and enjoy the delights of new scenery. Others remain at home, to seek pleasures in the various objects and places of interest in and about the town.

The pastimes of this age are wonderfully unlike those of our ancestors. In former times thousands of people passed through a long life, and rarely went more than half-a-dozen miles from the place of their birth; while now people leave the town for long distances by thousands.