25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, June 9, 1972

BECAUSE of rising prices and strikes, the two unhappiest segments of the electorate are the elderly and women. This emerges from the latest public opinion poll, in which only two in 10 women say they are happy about the way things are going in Britain. The picture is even more gloomy amongst the aged, for only 16 per cent say they are content with the country's present state of affairs.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, June 9, 1947

VANDALISM is demolishing the Rivington Bungalow more ruthlessly and with much less dignity than the Liverpool Corporation proposes to do. In a letter to the paper, Mr S.E. Coupe, of Great house, Rivington, says the public of Bolton and district has no respect for anything at Rivington, and that the Liverpool Corporation has had a constant uphill fight against the wilful destruction.

'It will be a great grief to me to see the Bungalow go,' he writes, 'but I would still rather see it

pulled down respectfully than the way it is being pulled down at present.'

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, June 10, 1872

WE publish in another place a letter from Councillor W. Hesketh, which is as remarkable an exhibition of meekness and self-control as we have witnessed for many a day. Mr Hesketh has been nominated for the office of Poor Law Guardian, without his consent, and having neither the time nor inclination for the duties of the office, he very properly refused to accept the nomination. Moreover he has not, for some reason, declined the nomination until it was too late for the Conservatives to bring forward another candidate. From these facts Mr Hesketh deduces the very absurd and illogical inference that one of the Liberal candidates ought to retire. He cannot perform the duties himself, never consented to do, and therefore either Mr Haslam or Mr Waterhouse ought to withdraw. When the voting papers are distributed, as they will be tomorrow, we trust the ratepayers will show what they think of the modest missive by voting 'straight' for Waterhouse and Haslam.

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