25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, June 6, 1972

A TOTAL of 468 miners are feared dead in a Rhodesia pit disaster today. A spokesman at the Wankie colliery said there had been a 'major underground explosion' at the mine, about 200 miles north of Bulawayo. The world's worst mining disaster occurred on April 26, 1942, when 1,572 workers were killed in the Honkeiko Colliery, China.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, June 6, 1947

SIR,- Many of your readers will be deeply concerned on learning of the threatened destruction of the late Lord Leverhulme's's Bungalow on Rivington Pike, and will, I am sure, strongly support any efforts, even at this late hour, to secure its preservation, and, what is to my mind even more important, the preservation of the attractive gardens around the Bungalow and some measure of public access to them.

In any event, it does seem wrong that a fine modern building in remarkably healthy surroundings should be threatened with demolition, when throughout Lancashire there is an urgent demand for accommodation of all kinds. Surely it could be retained, if not as a cafe, as an open-air school, rest house, youth hostel, or research station. - Yours etc., P.A. Barnes, Secretary, The Council for the Preservation of Rural England, Lancashire Branch.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, June 6, 1872

LAST night, at the Bowling Green Inn, Farnworth, Mr Taylor, auctioneer, Bolton, put up to auction the Albion Foundry, Egerton-street, Moses Gate, lately in the occupation of Mr John Tuen. The foundry stands upon 1,506 square yards of land, and is leased for 999 years, at a ground rent of £15. Along with the land was sold a steam engine, boiler, fan, shifting, pump, weighing machine and fixtures. After several bids, Mr Taylor knocked the property down for £340, the bid of Mr James Jackson, roller maker, Sydney-street, Bolton, who, we are informed, intends, at the foundry, to carry on that business.

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