From our archives
8:31am Saturday 25th September 2010 in News
10 YEARS AGO From the Evening News September 25, 2000 AMATEUR aircraft investigators have unearthed parts of two Hurricane fighter planes which crashed on Bolton moorland 50 years ago.
The Lancashire Aircraft Investigation Team have spent the weekend digging at the site of the crashed planes off Scout Road in Smithills.
The Hurricanes collided in mid-air in February, 1945 before plunging 7,000ft into the ground killing the pilots.
The plane enthusiasts have speculated that the pilots, who were outside their authorised area, may have been flying in close formation over the town to show off to a girlfriend in Bolton.
They found that not much of the planes remained because most of the structure would have been destroyed in the crash. Parts were also removed to a museum in Liverpool during digs in the 1970s.
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News September 25, 1985 PATIENTS at a Horwich medical practice are taking part in a pioneering research project.
Almost 4,000 people registered at Kildonan House Group Practice have been asked to help with a pilot study of the effects of salt on blood pressure.
The study is one of only two being conducted in the country.
The patients — all aged 35 to 64 — have been sent letters pointing out that high blood pressure is a health hazard and can sometimes cause a stroke or a heart attack.
They are being invited to attend the surgery in Chorley New Road to have their blood pressure checked after which some will be monitored for the next year.
50 YEARS AGO From the Evening News September 26, 1960 THE case of the 200 stretchers has been annoying some of Bolton’s ambulance men. The stretchers, one of them told a conference of Lancashire ambulance men belonging to the Transport and General Workers’ Union at the Spinners’ Hall, Bolton, yesterday, belong to the local civil defence corps.
They are stored on the top floor on the Bolton ambulance headquarters, and four Bolton ambulancemen were ordered to hoist them up by what the delegate called “prehistoric methods.”
The secretary of the Transport and General Workers’ Northern commercial section, Mr. J. Yates, promised the men that their complaint would be taken up with the Bolton local authority.
100 YEARS AGO From the Evening News September 26, 1910 JOSEPH Roberts (64), 55, Norfolk-st., was sitting in the Prince’s Hotel, Thwaites-st., early on Saturday evening, when he was suddenly taken ill. Dr. Cross was sent for, but before his arrival, the man was dead.
The coroner has dispensed with an inquest, as deceased had been under the care of Dr. Rees for several weeks, and he was able to give a certificate as to the cause of death.
