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Strathdale Park Play Space recognised through Award

Date Time Strathdale Park Play Space recognised through Award The design of the City of Greater Bendigo’s popular Strathdale Park Play Space in Crook Street has been recognised through a Regional Achievement award from the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) Victoria/Tasmania chapter. The play space will now compete in the AILA national awards to be held later this year. City of Greater Bendigo Presentation and Assets Director Brian Westley said the award was fantastic recognition for the City’s efforts to produce cost effective facilities for the community and visitors to enjoy. “While the City builds these assets for the community to enjoy it’s great that the work we are doing to make Greater Bendigo such a terrific place to live is recognised on a wider scale,” Mr Westley said.

Bolton s other railway that served Great Moor Street station

Professor Paul Salveson is a historian and writer and lives in Bolton. He is visiting professor in ‘Worktown Studies’ at the University of Bolton and author of several books on Lancashire history You’d have to be of a certain age to remember Bolton’s ‘other’ railway, which ran from Great Moor Street station, now part of Morrison’s car park. It was the terminus for two lines – the Leigh and Kenyon Junction line, via Chequerbent, and the route to Manchester via Walkden and Little Hulton. The Leigh line opened as early as 1828 and pre-dates even the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. The Bolton and Leigh Railway was the first ‘public’ railway in Lancashire and is of huge historical importance, engineered by George Stephenson and projected as early as 1824.

Tribute to well-known landlady Patricia Callaghan

Patricia Callaghan died on February 2, just a month before her 91st birthday. She ran a number of pubs in the borough ­ Painters Arms pub on Crook Street, Queens Hotel on Market St Farnworth and The Nightingale Inn on Lever Street, which is now the Bolton Irish Centre. LANDLADY:Patricia Callaghan Her grand-daughter Kate Hodgkinson paid tribute to Mrs Callaghan, who after suffering with dementia was cared for at Glenbank Care Home in Doffcocker. Kate, aged 31, said: “My nan was well-known, particularly in the Irish community. “She was born in Bolton but would spend a lot of time in Ireland, my grandfather was Irish and a lot of Irish people would go to her pubs.

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