From our archives
9:34am Monday 15th March 2010 in News
10 YEARS AGO
From the Evening News
March 15, 2000
BOLTON Council has again won a prestigious national award for its work improving the environment.
Coronation Street star Liz Dawn — who plays Vera Duckworth — presented the local authority with a People and Places award last night in a ceremony at the Radisson Hotel at Manchester Airport.
Bolton has frequently been among the Tidy Britain Group’s award winners over the years. In August, the town won the Queen Mother’s Birthday Award.
Last night, Bolton won the “best community involvement” award and was runner up in the “best community awareness” and “best management of litter and waste” category.
25 YEARS AGO
From the Evening News
March 15, 1985
HARD graft by workers on a Manpower Services commission community scheme at a Little Lever church cut a year long job by half.
The Bolton Community programme agency placed 10 workers under the supervision of Mr William Bellwood on a scheme to tidy up the grounds of St Teresa’s Church, Redcar Road.
Mr Bellwood said: “The “The workers under my supervision have worked through the winter when the ground was as solid as concrete and still finished early.”
50 YEARS AGO
From the Evening News
March 15, 1960
BOLTON housing Committee may spend during 1960-61 a maximum of £20,000 on replacing fittings and fixtures in pre-war-built council houses at Crompton Fold., Union-rd., Moorland-gr. and Tudor-ave.
A special sub-committee suggested to the Housing Committee yesterday that fireplaces and sinks should be included in all of the replacements.
Tenants who wanted a tiled fireplace instead of a bungalow range, would have to provide their own cooking facilities, and a grant of £5 would be made to a tenant who replaced privately an obsolete sink.
The Housing Committee all agreed that all houses on the Union-rd. estate should have lavatory replacements.
100 YEARS AGO
From the Evening News
March 15, 1910
THIS morning, John Dutton (16) son of Richard Dutton, of 1, Sportsman-st. Leigh, was engaged in the four feet mine of Messrs. Ackers, Whitley and Co’s. Bickershaw Colliery, Plank-lane, following his usual occupation of hooker-on, and was striking at a chain with a “bobby” which fastened two of a number of empty tubs, when he slipped on the metals, and fell underneath the tubs, fracturing both of his legs and injuring his chest. He was brought to the surface, but died before medical assistance was forthcoming.
