1870: April 23 - William Yates, stonemason, killed when he fell off Bullfield cotton mill chimney.

1870: Thomas and Ellen Warburton set up a small grocery shop in Blackburn Road (Warburtons still owns this shop and the headquarters is just across the road).

1870: November 16 - "Bolton" lifeboat bought by people of Bolton, launched at Kessingland, Suffolk.

1871: July 1 - Owners agreed to close Bolton Mills on Saturday lunchtimes and give afternoon off.

1871: August 15 - Bolton tradesmen decided to close all places of business one day each year in August.

1871: The completion of The Parish Church rebuild.

1871: Trinity Street new railway station opened at a cost of £19 by Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway.

1871: Dr Ballard's Report stated the death rate in Bolton for children under five years of age from 1866-70 was one-and-a-half times the national average for whooping cough, twice the national average for scaratina and nearly three times the norm for measles.

1871: August 25 - Three boys killed by fly-wheel at Smith's Old Colliery, Great Lever.

1871: August 26 - Alarming prevalence of foot and mouth disease at Bolton.

1871: October 9 - Temporary hospital at Spa Fields erected to deal with outbreak of smallpox in Bolton.