25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, April 19, 1973

THERE will be no attacks of classroom nerves for youngsters arriving for their first day at Bolton's newest school. For there aren't any classrooms as such in the 260-place St Bernard's Roman Catholic Primary School which opens on the Ladybridge estate at Deane on May 3. The £82,887 school has been built open plan.

SHOPKEEPERS and traders in Walkden town centre have voted against opening for six days a week. However, shops in the new complex are being allowed to open six days.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, April 19, 1948

A PROFIT on the year (ending February 29th) of £2,796 is revealed by Bolton Wanderers' balance sheet which reached shareholders today. This figure, says the directors' report, is arrived at after writing £1,500 off the fixed assets, providing for taxes to date, but includes £1,400 over-provided last year for the costs of the disaster in March, 1946. Income for the year, after payment of £13,228 in entertainments tax, was £55,557. On the expenditure side, principal items are £18,720 for players' wages, benefits, salaries and pensions and £13,404 for expenses in obtaining players and transfer fees.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, April 20, 1873

ON Monday last the new Town Hall-square library, which has been devoted to the use of the public as a free reading room and museum, was opened, and during the present week has been freely patronised. On Monday there were 701 visitors, Tuesday 220, Wednesday 327, Thursday 288, and yesterday 675; these numbers are independent of the subscription department, for whom one portion of the premises is set apart. The visitors have included the Mayor, most of the Town Council, the Mayor and Town Clerk of Wigan, and many of the leading families of Bolton. In addition to the display of curiosities, which are tastefully arranged for inspection, Messrs. Dobson and Barlow, in accordance with the request of Mr Waite, the librarian, have lent a model of a self-acting mule, which will, no doubt, be examined with interest by the visitors to the museum.

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