A LOOK back at some of the articles published in the Radcliffe Times 50 years ago highlights that families had to walk across a bridge due to a restriction while buses passed by empty.

A new overglove was also designed to enable children to be seen better by motorists.

ATTEMPTS are being made by Bury Public Transport Department to minimise inconvenience caused to the public by the closing of the Ainsworth Road bridge to heavy traffic.

They have introduced where possible, light-weight buses, but many passengers will still have to get out and walk over the bridge.

Since the restrictions were placed on the bridge last Friday, passengers have had to alight and walk over while the bus went over unladen.

Now, where possible, in the evenings and on Sundays, single-decker buses are used or light-weight double deckers which can cross the bridge if they are carrying a limited number of passengers.

Single the "get out and walk" restriction came into force, there have been many complaints from passengers.

Mrs L K Mould of Harley Avenue, Ainsworth, is very annoyed about the bridge.

""It is going to be very difficult for mothers with young children to cope with.

"It is time something was done. It should never have got into such a state", she told a reporter last Friday, when the restrictions had just come into force.

BURY and Radcliffe Road Safety Officer Deryck Andrews has designed a fluorescent overglove to be worn by children to enable them to be seen better by motorists.

In his report to the Safety Committee, at its meeting in Radcliffe Town Hall, Mr Andrews said he had seen several white and fluorescent items which helped the driver but he had never seen any gloves.

He had designed what he had called "Miceville mitts" which would probably be white on one side and a bright fluorescent colour on the other.

They would be made from fluorescent PVC and the wearer only needed to move the mittens from one hand to the other in order to change the colour, the bright colour for daylight and the white at night.

The mittens were designed to fit over existing gloves or mittens.

At present Mr Andrews does not know what the cost of making them will be.

He said that any design royalties to which he was entitled would be spent on his library in Bury General Hospital.