25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, May 7, 1973

HUNDREDS of soccer fans welcomed Third Division champions Bolton Wanderers when they arrived at the Town Hall last night for a civic reception. It was the sixth time a civic reception had been held for the Wanderers. On the previous five occasions it had been for reaching the FA Cup Final.

A terse statement issued by the chairman of Bolton Wanderers, Mr W.G. Isherwood, today ended speculation on the future of manager Jimmy Armfield. It read: 'Mr Armfield will remain at Bolton Wanderers Football Club'. He had been linked with First Division club Everton, who have been searching for a team manager since Harry Catterick relinquished the position nearly a month ago.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, May 7, 1948

MINIATURE traffic lights are being used, probably for the first time in Bolton, on Chorley New-rd. where reconstruction of the road between Albert-rd. and The Crofters has now begun. The traffic lights work automatically, on a time basis, and control traffic near the place where work is in progress, thus saving the time of two men who would otherwise have to control traffic with hand signals, at each end of the work. Incidentally, the work on Chorley New-rd. is expected to take about nine months to complete, at the end of which time there will be a new concrete surface.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, May 7, 1873

SIR,- I read in the Evening News on Saturday last a paragraph headed 'A Good Example', and having reference to the firm of Messrs Jas. Wilson and Son, of the Limefield Mills, Farnworth, and stating that they had kindly granted their hands an hour's less labour on the Saturday. Now, as a female factory worker, though not working for Mr Wilson and his son, I sincerely thank them for their kindness to those of my sex who work for them, and I hope to see others masters following their example. For a female it is too long a stretch to be employed from breakfast-time to two o'clock, and is felt all the more irksome because different to other days in the matter of meal times, and besides it spoils Saturday afternoon as a half-holiday. I hope this boon will be granted by others, and thus show that they have a consideration for their hands besides paying their wages. We factory workers know how to appreciate a kindness, and there would be no loss by it.- Yours very truly, A Factory Girl

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