From the Evening News, July 14, 1972

JUST returned from a 12-day voyage on the Leeds-Liverpool canal, Bolton's 'Viking rower', Ralph Richardson, is already setting his sights on a row around the coastline of Britain. Bachelor Ralph, of Marlborough Street, Bolton, has been rowing England's waterways for 17 years and considers a trip through the canals as a sojourn with the past. He thinks a trip round the coastline will take at least seven months.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, July 15, 1947

IN an article on Bolton street names in yesterday's Evening News, 'Quidnunc' made a passing reference to Hugh Lupus-st. which has stirred some curiosity. The small street, off Ashworth-lane, Astley Bridge, is less conspicuous than its most unusual name, but the latter, like many another referred to in the article, has distinct historical associations.

Hugh of Avranches, it seems, once owned the entire area we now know as the Bolton district, but 'Quidnunc' referred to him by his title as Earl of Chester, who seems to have bought the manor at a price that was almost a gift from its second owner, Roger de Mercheys, after the country was conquered by the Normans. He won his surname Lupus (the Wolf) by his savage wars in which he conquered North Wales and Anglesey.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News July 15, 1872

ON Thursday, Friday and Saturday of last week, various parts of the country were visited by terrific thunderstorms and floods of the most disastrous character. Lancashire has suffered very severely. The rain came down in torrents in the Bradshaw Valley, and immense damage has been done. The new waterworks in course of construction by the Corporation in the Wayoh Valley were inundated to the depth of 20 feet, and the offices washed away. The cottages of some of the workers were submerged to the bedroom windows. Quarlton Vale printworks were flooded to the depth of several feet, and one end of the building was washed out and machinery carried down the river. The damage at Bradshaw will amount to more than £2000.

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