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October 31, 1956

Choose a career that will hold the interest, even if it means accepting a lower rate of pay, the Recorder of Newark (Mr T. R. Fitzwalter Butler) told pupils of Newark Lilley and Stone Girls'  High School after he had distributed prizes at the Palace Cinema.

"In choosing, whether it be permanent or only a temporary post, do make it something which you can tackle with real interest and into which you can put your whole hearts," he advised.

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Until the Advertiser spoke to officials, the British Transport Commission was unaware that Newark Town Council proposed to take over compulsorily its parcels depot in Lover's Lane for housing development after slum clearance.

The town council decided to make a compulsory purchase order for this and other property, if agreement to buy the same cannot be reached with the owners concerned, as part of its plans for the third stage of slum clearance.

The council also recommended its estates committee to assist in finding another site for the depot, Newark’s biggest road freight centre.

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Southwell has been awarded second place in the Rural Community Council's competition for the best-kept village in Nottinghamshire.

The competition has been won by Woodborough which became the second holder, for a year, of a plaque presented by the Duke of Portland and Lady Galway.
 

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October 24, 1956

Around 100 people attended Newark Divisional Conservative Association ball at Newark Town Hall.
Among those present were the Mayor and Mayoress of Newark (Councillor and Mrs. R. A. Thurst) the divisional president (Mr H. A. D. Cherry-Downes and his wife) several members of Newark Town Council and the reigning Queen Of The Dukeries, Miss Pamela Gardham, of Balderton.

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The appearance of American Air Force vehicles at Winthorpe RAF station led to a rumour that the Americans were about to take over the station.

That also led to fears that they might also be taking over the now disused airfield and so deprive Newark Agricultural Society of its magnificent showground.

But the Advertiser is informed that the Americans are definitely not moving in on Winthorpe. They have borrowed some vacant accommodation there and re using it purely for storage purposes.

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To mark the millenary of Southwell Minster Grammar School a dinner was held at the Saracen's Head Hotel, Southwell.

The toast to the society was proposed by Rear Admiral R. St Vincent Sherbrooke, VC, CB, DSO, RN, who said the society, which is 50 years old, had behind it the tradition of 1,000 years.

Grammar schools had been one of the mainstays of the country, he said, and they were still the gateway to the professions.

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October 17, 1956

Now that the Lloyds Bank Building in Newark is almost completely demolished there is for the first time a safer and clearer view for traffic emerging from Stodman Street.

Work on the new building will start early next year and will take about 18 months. It will probably be the largest bank building in Newark.

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The Institute of Advanced Motorist announce that Mr Henry Allwood of Hawton Road, Newark is the first person in Newark to receive a Master Motorist’s car badge.

Mr Allwood took the institute’s stringent driving test in London. So far, 1,000 motorists have passed the test: a similar number has failed.

He never took an ordinary driving test, and it was for this reason that he applied for the super test.
"I wanted to find out how good, or bad, a driver I was," he told the Advertiser.

Mr Allwood is a man who takes tremendous pride in his driving. Every time he takes his car out he resolves to make no mistakes. If he does make one - like forgetting to see that an indicator is dropped again as soon as necessary - he gives himself a mental reprimand.

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Although expenditure on Newark Agricultural Show in May was increased by nearly £10,000, the final profit made is within £35 of the previous year.

Accounts to be presented to the annual meeting of the Agricultural Society later this month indicate that income exceeded expenditure by £845 10s, compared with £880 in 1955.

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October 10, 1956

Preliminary work on the construction of a new weir on the River Trent at Cromwell lock near Newark has started. The project is expected to take nearly two years and will cost British Waterways £250,000.
The 350ft weir is to replace the existing one, which has become ineffective after the severe flooding of recent years.

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In a half-finished building open to the sky, the foundation stone of a new church hall in Newark was laid on Saturday afternoon.

To be known as Winthorpe Road Baptist church it is at the junction with Wolsey Road.
On Saturday the building of it was described as a fine piece of missionary work by members of Albert Street Baptist Church, Newark.

Mr G. W. Wilson, secretary of Newark Baptist church described how when Newark Town Council contemplated building a housing estate along Winthorpe Road in 1946 the Baptists thought of building a church there.

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Criticism of court fines imposed for parking offences in Newark was made at the half-yearly meeting of Newark Tradesmen's Association on Monday. Mr Claud King described a £1 fine on one motorist as an imposition.

Mr King told of a customer who left a car in Stodman Street while making a small purchase at a shop. The man was summoned and fined £1.

"He could have been fined 5s, or even 10s but £1 is a lot of money," Mr King said. font>

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October 3 1956

For 12 hours on Friday the clergy of Newark Parish Church - the Rev J. H. D. Grinter, Vicar, the Rev M. H. Usher and the Rev S. G. Hall - took turns on duty to receive donations for the church’s annual gift day.

This Advertiser wsphoto shows Mr Hall accepting gifts from Jeffrey Robert Allan (left) and Christopher Kenneth Allan. More than £300 had been received by the weekend.

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Nobody knew until Monday night how near to disaster was Newark’s 18th Century Town Hall.

At Newark Town Council's meeting the chairman of the estates committee, Councillor L. Heaton, told a shocked council that dry rot was very active in the roof timbers, that the beams supporting the fine Adam ceiling of the ballroom were infected with woodworm, that chimneys were on the verge of collapse and that the stonework of the statuary ornamenting the building’s pediment was already beyond repair.

The council approved his committee's recommendation that £4,000 should be spent on repairs urgently necessary.

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Six patients who escaped from a criminal mental institution were caught by a police dog at Sutton-on-Trent and Carlton-on-Trent as the fog lifted on Wednesday morning.

The six men, aged 20 to 31, escaped from Rampton by forcing a steel bar on the window of their villa dormitory.

At 6am Mr Reg Smalley, keeper at Eves Lane level crossing, Sutton-on-Trent, saw six men in pyjamas. They told him they were caravanning in the area and that their car containing their clothes and money had been stolen while they slept.