Health and children's centre opens

Halliwell Health and Children's Centre is a purpose-built facility which provides a wide range of services for physically able and disabled children in Bolton.

VANDALS went on a wrecking spree in a Bolton church and caused thousands of pounds worth of damage.

Church leaders were today surveying the damage after the wreckers broke into the Church of the Nazarene in Brownlow Fold, Bolton, last night.

They drove a car through a nine foot high fence which surrounds the building and then went on the rampage, causing damage estimated at more than £2,000.

25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News

April 19, 1980

BATTLING housewives will be joining forces in Bolton on Monday to discuss their future tactics.

The women - members of the new Bolton-based Housewives'Action Group - have already collected more than 30,000 signatures for a petition which is to be presented to Mrs Thatcher.

Group spokesperson Mrs Vera Hutchinson of Church Road, Smithills said: "It is surprising how much strong feeling there is over the rising cost of living."

BUSINESS is booming at a weekly cookery class for the old at Slaterfield Community Centre, Bolton.

It was only formed three weeks ago and already it has an average of 20 people at its meetings every Thursday morning.

The pupils - average age about 70 - help prepare the meal under the tuition of Mrs Marilyn Lawton, a professional cookery teacher at Queen Street Adult Education Centre, and then sit down to sample their own efforts.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News

April 19, 1955

MR Attlee, Leader of the British Labour Opposition, said last night that if industries in England were renationalised by a Labour government they were likely to remain that way for all time.

In the last press conference of his Canadian tour, Mr Attlee said that road transport and steel - both nationalised by his former government and denationalised by the Conservatives - would be taken under State ownership again.

"TEDDY boys" in a cafe used their spoons as drumsticks and rattled them in their cups and saucers in time with music from a jukebox, Portsmouth Licensing justices were told today.

But although neighbours complained that they were kept awake at night and were unable to listen to their wireless sets, the proprietor of the Square Deal Caf in Southsea was granted a jukebox licence for two weeks.

100 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News

April 19, 1905

THE anniversary of the death of the Earl of Beaconsfield is being observed in Bolton by the decoration of the Earl's statue in Queen's Park and a display of primroses at the Conservative clubs.

Buttonholes of the modest little flower are not in very great profusion, however, and but little notice seems to be taken of the anniversary.

The Primrose Leaguers, however, on Sunday last had a procession to St James's Church.