25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, January 5, 1973

Turton Council decided last night to 'go it alone' with its controversial sports hall project, and site the £45,000 building at Longsight Park, Harwood. By this decision they rejected a Lancashire Education Authority recommendation to putt the hall in the grounds of the Turton High School.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, January 6, 1948

'THERE is no more civilizing influence in the life of the boy and girl growing up through adolescence than adequate opportunities for flirtation', Dr Majorie Tait, organizing secretary of the London Union of Mixed Clubs and Girls' Clubs today told a family relations group conference in London.

'Flirtation properly done is part of the act of living', she declared. 'Most primitive peoples know this, and attach importance to it. We either call it "necking" and disapprove of it, or call it "rather nice manners" and approve of it.'

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, January 6, 1873

TWENTY-eight thousand copies (11,000 of them presented by James Barlow, Esq., and 17,000 by a member of the British Temperance League) of 'A New Year's Address for every family in Bolton and neighbourhood' have been distributed in the town and district. The address contains the following remarkable statistics and calculations:-

In the borough of Bolton there are 121 public houses and 275 beershops. The annual expenditure at these places is £238,000. The grain destroyed to manufacture the liquid which is annually consumed in these houses would make 2,304,000 4-lb loaves. In 1871, 806 persons were arrested for drunkenness in Bolton, and this by no means shows the actual amount of drunkenness amongst us.

The estimated number of adults in Bolton who never attend a place of worship at any time is over 20,000; and you need only walk along Deansgate, and other public thoroughfares, on Sunday evenings, to know how these spend the hours set apart for rest and worship.

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