1877: January 23 - Explosion at Roscow & Lord's Stonehill Collery, Farnworth, 18 died.

1877: February 10 - Bailiffs seized train at Little Hulton, LNWR failed to pay Poor Rate.

1877: July 15 - Bridge with man on it washed away near Longworth Mill.

1877: July 24 - The great showman PT Barnham, lectured in Bolton.

1877: August 2 - The Bolton Improvement Act was passed.

1877: November 21 - The Golden Lion Beerhouse, Little Lever, fell down and caused £500 damage.

1878: The mineral railway line to Kearsley was opened at a cost £100,000.

1878: January 17 - The first telephone arrived in Bolton. The Gas office in Hotel Street was connected with The Gas Street works - a distance of 500 yards.

1878: July 22 - H Asworth gave Bolton Corporation a portrait of Samuel Crompton, inventor.

1878: November 4 - John Clapham, of Turton, died of hydrophobia, after being bitten by a dog.

1879: February 12 - Office of Bolton town clerk made a full-time job. £1,000 per year.

1879: March 17 - Ellen Mather had her throat cut outside Trinity Street Railway Station by William Cooper.