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March 27, 1957

Wearing the traditional paint-splashed overall of the artist, Mr. J. Millichip, of Beeston, demonstrated the technique of painting a portrait in oils to members of Newark Arts Club at Newark Technical College. His 73-year-old model was Mr J. Fincham.

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A tricorne - recognised headgear for women mayors - is to be presented to Newark Corporation by Mr Kenneth Kemsley. The offer was made on Monday and the council's finance committee that evening accepted it with grateful thanks.

Mr Kemsley who has a fashion shop in Newark was anxious to make some contribution to the next mayoral year when Mrs K. A. Quibell will become Newark's first woman mayor.

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An appeal to the town to help Newark Cricket Club was made by the treasurer Mr E. P. Foster at the club's annual meeting.

Of the club's assets only £43 is in cash — and the club costs about £400 a year to run.

Urgently in need of renovation which the club cannot afford, is the pavilion. Mr Foster said: “Newark Cricket Club has been in existence for well over 100 years. It is one of the most historic clubs in England.

"The pavilion is still a fine building aesthetically and when it was built it must have a been a wonderful building well befitting one of the loveliest grounds in the country."
 

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March 20, 1957

Six young ladies were mannequins for an hour on Thursday evening. Just for the fun of it, they modelled clothes from Clark’s of Cartergate, and Peter Gay's of Beaumond Cross, Newark, before an audience of 200 in North End Methodist schoolroom, Newark.

They were Sheila Peet, Margaret Silvey and Greta Cope, and, bottom, left to right, Brenda Hardy, Jean Gilbert and Ann Saxby.

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Sectional strikes in the engineering industry, decided by the unions yesterday, may hit Newark. The Ransome and Marles ball bearing factory, Newark’s biggest employer of labour, maybe one of the strategic centres chosen for guerrilla action.

If the engineering dispute develops into a complete stoppage, a third of all the insured population of Newark will become idle.

Those on strike will have no right to draw unemployment insurance or National Assistance. Many live in council houses, paying high rents but at the first sign of distress the town council’s housing committee will meet specially.

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Sunday cinemas in Newark, yes. Band concerts, no. Planned for March 31, a concert at the Savoy Cinema by the Basil and Ivor Kirchin Band Show is off - by order of Newark Town Council’s watch committee.

The district supervisor of Star Cinemas, Mr A. F. Swaine, could not give the answer as to why the licence application was turned down. No reasons are given by the committee.

Mr Swaine did say, however, that a programme of the music to be played had been submitted to the authorities. On the programme - Rock Around The Clock, Rock 'n' Rolling At The Dark-Town Strutters Ball, Stone-age Mambo and Mama Don’t Allow.

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March 13, 1957

Members of Newark Boys’ Club sorted clothes for their jumble sale on Friday. Among those helping were Brian Aldridge, Tony Wells, Ted Jordan, Neville Wells and Mr G. Wilson. The jumble sale made £40.

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Men worked through yesterday to extricate a bus from a 10ft dyke into which it plunged while carrying a party of Newark anglers on a fishing outing on Sunday.

The crash came when a grass verge collapsed while the bus was avoiding a cyclist.
The driver was detained in hospital with severe shock, and six members of the party received treatment for cuts and shock.

The bus, owned by Thomas Tours, of North Muskham, was carrying 22 members of the Worthington-Simpson Angling Club for a day’s fishing in the River Glen, Lincolnshire.

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March 6 1957

The opening of League of Pity collection boxes at a fancy dress party and dance on Friday realised £33 11s.

More than 80 members of the Newark branch celebrated the branch's anniversary at the party held in the Savoy Café.

The party was attended by the Mayoress of Newark, Mrs R. A. Hurst, who helped to judge a fancy dress competition and presented the prizes.

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Newark Town Council is to buy 31/2 acres of land at the rear of Potterdyke, with frontages on Lombard Street and Pelham Street.

The land, which will cost £3,000, is in an area that has been suggested for Newark’s future bus station.
But the chairman of the estates committee, Mr L. Heaton, said it had been bought simply because the committee considered it a good policy to acquire land in the centre of the town if the price was right.

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Councillor Mrs K. A Quibell, is to be the next Mayor of Newark. She will be the first woman to hold the office since it was created 331 years ago, under a charter granted by Charles I.

Mrs Quibell became Mayor-elect on Monday, when Newark Town Council suddenly broke away from its normal routine of calling for written nominations and discussing them at an informal meeting.