BATHS: Demolition work on Bury's old baths in St Mary's Place was continuing this week. The baths were built at a cost of £3,498 in 1863 and opened amidst a brilliant display of civic pomp the following year. The doors were finally closed during the 1973 fuel crisis and the building was being replaced by the new £750,000 baths in Bolton Street, in 1974. TV: Thieves who stole a colour television set from a warehouse in Fox Street, Bury, were not going to get much joy when they sat back and tuned in. They would not even get a picture.

The reason was that the television set was going to be sent to its owner in South Africa and had been adapted to work only in that country.

CRASH: A lorry missed a row of terraced houses by less than two feet when it overturned in Richard Burch Street, Bury. The lorry, which belonged to Fred Smith and Sons haulage contractors in Bury, was turning into the street from Taylor Street when its load -- a seven-ton roller -- shifted, causing the vehicle to overturn. The driver, Mr Brian Henderson of Oram Street, Bury, escaped unhurt.

WATER: Bury Area Health Authority gave its full support to the fluoridation of the borough's water supply.

STRANDED: A large party of children from Hazelhurst School in Ramsbottom, and their teachers, were stranded in the middle of London when the two coaches hired to take them to Euston Station disappeared.

The 75 pupils were in Leicester Square rounding-off a sightseeing trip of the capital when the coach drivers broke the news that the coaches had been taken away by police because the vehicles were said to be parked dangerously.

Luckily the party took the underground to Euston to catch their train home to Manchester.

SHAKERS: Speculation about the future of footballer Derek Spence ended when the Northern Ireland international signed a two-year agreement with the Shakers. It was the sequel to endless close season rumours that Spence would start next season in the First Division following outstanding performances for his country against Yugoslavia and in the Home International series. WHERE ARE THEY NOW? MR James Grundy from Eccles is trying to trace relatives of James Platt and Mary Elizabeth Grundy who were married at Ainsworth Parish Church on May 8, 1886.

He is also keen to speak with relatives of William Worthington and Margaret Ann Grundy, who were married at the same church in 1887, and any relatives of the Grundy family who lived at 3 Vale Street, Ainsworth, up to 1891.

They can write to Mr Grundy at 102 College Croft, Eccles, M30 0AN.