50 YEARS AGO: From the Radcliffe Times of Januray 3, 1958
7:47am Thursday 3rd January 2008
Radcliffe Council was getting ready to start building an "old folks colony" on the Wilton housing estate.
Firemen spent five hours tackling a fire on a slag heap at Outwood Colliery.
Christmas Day babies Noelle Kirby and Carole Anne Matthews were born at Bealey Maternity Home.
More than 200 people attended a New Year's Eve carnival dance held by St Andrew's Operatic Society.
Concerns were raised about bus drivers parking at the junction of Bury and Bolton Road and Starling Road.
Radcliffe Post Office handled a record 310,000 letters at Christmas.
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