May 29, 1968

MOTHERS of children at St Marie's Primary School are urging the town council to move a "danger" bus stop a few yards from its Market Street entrance.

They claim that buses using the stop block the view of traffic, creating a hazard for the 200 pupils.

Mrs Rosemary Madden, the crossing patrolwoman on duty outside the school, said: "I am not afraid of traffic myself, but I am very concerned about the children who are hardly old enough to overcome these hazards.

Mrs Nora Hesketh, whose nine-year-old son Peter attends the school, added: "Sometimes buses park right outside the gate instead of going up to the bus stop. The children have to peep round the bus and they cannot see oncoming traffic."

Town Hall officials say there is no danger from the bus stop and they they are not prepared to take any action.

BURY Town Council has run in to snags over its plans to set up a new smokeless zone thanks to its own chimneys.

The issue is being caused by the chimney at the Cleansing Department's £100,000 Fernhill yard destructor plant which allegedly belches out charred paper into nearby gardens.

Although the chimney is outside the proposed zone, residents are calling on the council to solve its chimney problems first, though the council disputes the extent of the issue.

A CAR was left overturned after it had careered down Walshaw Road without a driver, before turning a corner, hitting a lamppost, swerving into Victoria Street and coming to a rest upside-down outside the Tattersal family home, on Monday evening.

The Tattersals were watching television when the vehicle crashed to a halt outside their door.

They called an ambulance before realising that, mysteriously, no-one was in the car.

Equally surprised was the car's owner, Mr Thomas Houghton, a paper engineer aged 47, who had parked the car with the handbrake on outside his front door, only to find it gone seconds later.

The car was righted by a breakdown van and towed away.

COINS dating back to the reign of King George III have been found under the floorboards of a former pub, built in 1817.

Discovered by Mr William Madden and his 15-year-old son Peter at the Friendly Cafe, Porritt Street, the coins include a shilling from 1817, as well as George IV and Victorian coins and some 19th century marbles.