From the Bury Times, Sept 18, 1948

FOOD: The food control committee refused an application from a Cleveleys man to sell fried fish on the market, because he would have had to use horse fat in the present fat shortage. They also denied an application from the corporation baths to add bread and marge to their catering licence for the benefit of turkish baths users.

MAINTENANCE: At Bury Matrimonial Court, racing cyclist Reg Harris admitted wife desertion and was told to pay £3 a week to her and their child.

TDA: A Radcliffe man got three months' jail for taking a car from outside the Three Arrows and driving it with no insurance.

CARS: There was a waiting list for new cars, although traders were happy to sell you some old pre-war banger for the equivalent of a year's wages. Carrs Motors of Knowsley Street ran this ad in the BT - Austins last longer. Why? Because Austin workers, whose fine training has become a byword, produce a car completely dependable in every way. This goes for the old stalwarts still carrying on at home, as well as for the new Austins now going abroad to win new credit for Britain.

ARMY: Two local MPs, Walter Fletcher and Tony Greenwood promised help to the Hawkshaw Farmers' Association who were fighting a War Office plan to use 1,500 acres next to Holcombe Range for training.

PLANES: Pictured at Bury Model Aero Club's show in the Drill Hall were members Derek Hardman and Derek Helm. The club was raising cash for the RAF Benevolent Fund. LEATHER: In the first fall-off in trade since pre-war days, some Bury tanneries and shoe-sole factories were going on short time.

EMIGRE: Local cricketer and self-taught pianist Frank Taylor went to Rhodesia as a manager with a local cotton company. He flew out via Geneva, Corsica, Athens, Cairo and Khartoum. Previously he was an instructor in cotton weaving at Bury Technical College.

PAY: Skilled maintenance mechanics, blacksmiths, turners and electricians in Bury cotton mills were set to get a 7s 6d pay rise to £6 7s 6d. Their union had asked for £7.

25 years ago

From the Bury Times, Sept 21, 1973

HOUSING: 136 houses on the St Stephens council estate, some 1927 vintage, were set to be done up. Coun Finnerty suggested that some of the upheaval could be avoided by offering caravans as temporary homes during the works.

RAIL: After a government decision to shelve finance for the Picc-Vic rail link, Coun John Skellern said the Knowsley Street Interchange could be set back.

CHARITY: A door-to-door appeal for cash was launched to buy Mother Teresa of Calcutta an ambulance.

VANDALS: Ramsbottom Council was set to hire a security firm to guard its sewage works at Summerseat.

TRUANTS: After the recent report about three little boys who wagged it off school and went to Blackpool instead without any cash, their respective head teachers wrote to the BT to deplore the report. One head wrote: . . . taxpayers would be surprised to know how much these three smiling little heroes have cost them so far this year. One of this trio has attended our school for four days and caused more trouble than all the other children put together.

SPILL: A lorry overturned at Hollins Brow after brake failure. The driver ran it into the wall before it ran onto Manchester Road. Its load of soil blocked the road until cleared by a digger.

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