May 30,1956

The Old England hotel at Sutton-on-Trent has a wide clientèle and the village people have an opportunity of meeting celebrities.

On Sunday evening the hotel telephone rang, and a deep American voice said: “I guess you can’t serve 30 salmon and chicken teas right now?”

Mr W. Pike replied: “I sure can, sir,” and within ten minutes a coach pulled up outside the hotel. The visitors were the Harlem Globe Trotters, the famous exponents of basketball.

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Newark Town Council on Monday discussed the town’s parking problems and had before it a highways committee decision to draw the attention of the police to exceptions under no waiting orders.

Superintendent R. S. Dams revealed that since the orders came into force less than two years ago 278 reports had been put in by police officers.

In 83 cases the offenders had been brought before the magistrates. The remaining 195 had received police cautions.
 

May 23, 1956

The first all-day gala to be staged by Ransome and Marles since the war may become an annual event.

Enjoying a ride on the swingboats in this Advertiser newsphoto are Susan East, left, and Janice Marshall.

Held on the firm’s sports ground at Elm Avenue, Newark, the programme attracted some 4,000 employees, their families and friends.

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Members of Newark Parish Church who went on a Whitsun outing to Liverpool on Monday had a lucky escape on the return journey when the brakes of their coach failed while descending the Cat and Fiddle, a steep hill near Buxton.

The coach careered down the hill and crossed a main road, narrowly missing a car. It slowed down at last as it ascended a rough side-track.

The 35 passengers might have been in a serious accident but for the skilful driving of Mr George Howell, of Staunton Road, Newark.

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A new junior school to be built at Barnby Road, Newark, will have features that will make it of more than local interest, Newark District Education Committee was told.

The chairman, Alderman J. A. Markwick, said that one unusual feature was that the classrooms would be “extremely commodious for the numbers to be accommodated.”
 

May 16, 1956

Some of the members of the crew of HMS Caunton had not been in their namesake village many minutes on Saturday

After half a century of service, Newark’s Barnby Road Hospital, at present a tuberculosis centre managed from Mansfield, is to be closed.

The buildings will probably be offered for sale by the Sheffield Regional Hospital Board.

“The hospital was considered to be too small nowadays to function as an economic unit,” an official of the Regional Board told the Advertiser yesterday.

The hospital, although by far the smallest of the three in Newark, is the only one with its own “supporters’ club” known as the Friends of Barnby Road Hospital.

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Although the temperature of the water in Newark Swimming Pool on Monday was barely 60 degrees, several people were waiting for the turnstile to start clicking, at 10am, for the first time this year.

During the first day, 336 people visited the pool. Season tickets, were sold to eight adults, seven juniors (16 to 19 years) and 58 children. First in was Mr Geoffrey Holmes of Eton Avenue, Newark.

School parties from the Bishop Alexander Primary school, Sconce Hills Secondary School and the Parish Church of England School accounted for 139 of the visitors.
 

May 9, 1956

There was an anxious moment for a standholder at Newark Show when a bull which had broken loose galloped around among a display of £30 fireplaces — without upsetting one.

The bull became fractious during judging, dragged its herdsman off his feet and raced out of the ring up one of the main avenues of trade stands.
Outside the stand of Newark Fires of Barnbygate it halted — and then charged for the entrance.

Mr C. Green of Newark Fires, tried to stop it on the way in and was unceremoniously pushed aside by three-quarters of a ton of bull.

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Describing a parson’s minimum stipend as quite inadequate the Archdeacon of Newark the Ven F. H. West said: “If we wish to maintain anything like the traditional ministry in the parishes we must not rest content with it.”

The Archdeacon was delivering his annual visitation charge in Newark Parish Church.

He said: “I can assure you that I do not enjoy going round parochial church councils discussing parson’s stipends and possibly giving the impression that the benefice income is the matter which chiefly concerns a prospective incumbent when he is offered a living.

“But the fact remains that a clergyman does not accept a benefice unless he can be reasonably assured beforehand that necessary expenditure will not exceed income.”

May 2, 1956

Newark Corporation’s scheme for the replacement of kitchen ranges in council houses by modern open fires has come to a full stop — for the time being.

The housing committee reported that it had received a letter from the Ministry of Housing and Local Government stating that “in view of the need to reduce capital expenditure at the present time,” the scheme should be deferred for at least six months.

This is the first Newark Town Council scheme to be effectively vetoed under the ministry’s six month embargo on all but the most important capital expenditure.

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A bombshell burst in the debate when Newark Town Council again discussed a suggestion that the market should be moved to the Lombard Street carpark site.

It was revealed that a key strip in the middle of the Lombard Street site was covenanted to be used only as a carpark. The man who dropped the bombshell was Alderman B. L. Maule.

A proposal which might have led to firm plans to switch the positions of market stalls and cars was defeated.