25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, September 29, 1972

LANCASHIRE folk, as the county analyst Mr A.C. Bushnell well appreciates, certainly know their cakes. So when an Eccles cake turned up for analysis in his laboratories with the complaint that it was, in fact, a Chorley cake, he had to admit the customer was right. Both cakes contained pastry and the same fat content, plus a fruit filling. But the fruit was more of a paste than a whole vine fruit, and that is what makes a genuine Eccles cake.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, September 30, 1947

AFTER today no basic petrol coupons will be valid unless they are September's issue. This means that there will be very few motorists who can use their cars for pleasure. If they have already used their September allocation then there is nothing to do but garage the car. Some but not many have already decided to 'put up' their cars for the winter, and have applied for a licence refund for the remaining three months of the year.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, September 30, 1872

SIR, - On passing down Bath-street this morning, I witnessed an accident which might have proved fatal, through the reprehensible practice of boys hanging on behind vehicles when in motion. Several boys were hanging on behind a lurry when the driver saw them and ordered them off. At that moment a cab was passing in an opposite direction, when a boy who ran towards the middle of the road was struck by the step of the cab and thrown between the wheels. The lad, with rapidity of thought, dragged his legs after him, and thus escaped with a few bruises only. Yours &c., An Eye-witness.

ANOTHER suicide has just taken place in Bolton. Yesterday, the body of a young man, named John Hardman, residing in Old-acres, was found drowned in the Bolton and Bury Canal. He was employed as a stonemason upon the erection of Dr Chadwick's Orphanage, Haulgh, and would have had to pass the canal on his way to work. Deceased is supposed to have committed suicide through jealousy, as he had a quarrel with his sweetheart, a young woman named Annie Evans, employed as a servant in a beerhouse in Lum-street, on Wednesday night.

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