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April 23, 1958

The colours of the 8th Battalion The Sherwood Foresters made one of their last appearances in Newark on Sunday when they were escorted to the parish church for the annual St George's Day service.

Rolls of Honour of the battalion are in the St George's chapel of the church.
The colours are to be renewed later this year. The new ones will include battle honours gained by the battalion during the second world war. The present colours were presented in 1911.

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For the first time since it was formed in January 1923, Newark and District Caledonian Society has a lady president. Mrs M. Tyler was elected to the office at the annual meeting at the Clinton Arms Hotel on Friday.

She has been a member of the society for 25 years and has served on the committee for many years. For the last three years, she has been vice-president.

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Newark Bowling Club are to open their green on Sundays.The proposal was carried by a big majority.
The main opposition was that the green ought to have a rest one day a week - if it was played on seven days a week it would mean too much wear and tear on the turf. Those in favour said that the rest was not necessary.

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April 16, 1958

Trainspotters were out at Newark Castle Station when the Great Northern Railway’s new diesel service linking Derby, Nottingham, Newark and Lincoln came into operation.

The sleek new diesel units — one of the first to pass through Newark is pictured in this Advertiser newsphoto — are now running an hourly service between Nottingham and Lincoln.

They complete the journey in less than an hour, clipping 18 minutes off the time that used to be taken by steam trains.

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A couple were having tea on Monday evening at their home in Castlegate, Newark, when they heard a crash.

They opened the front door and almost on the doorstep was a lorry.

The couple were Mr and Mrs E. Smith. And overhanging the built-up roadway on the right-angled bend on the Great North Road as it sweeps through Newark was the lorry that was carrying five tons of iron rods.

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Hundreds of Newarkers had a clear view of Sputnik II, the first manmade satellite to carry a living creature into orbit round the earth, during the last hours before its entry into the atmosphere and disintegration on Monday.

Watchers saw the Sputnik, about the same apparent size and brilliance as a bright star, moving steadily across the sky for about a minute.

Several people in and around Newark saw the satellite on Friday night, but there have been no reports of local sightings on Sunday night, when it was lower in the sky and there was a good deal of cloud.

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April 2, 1958

The Mayor of Newark, Mrs K. A. Quibell, accepted the invitation to “drink more milk� at the Nottinghamshire Federation of Young Farmers’ Clubs’ Easter fair at the Town Hall on Saturday.
A milk bar, installed by the Milk Marketing Board, was manned by members of Lowdham YFC.

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Writing on the wall of a first floor room in Castlegate, Newark, spans 175 years. Decorators who stripped the wall for re-papering found inscriptions by two previous paper hangers, and before the wall is re-papered next week a 1958 message is to be added.

The wall is in the bedroom of a flat belonging to Brooks Motor Co (Newark) Ltd. The first inscription dates from 1783 and the second from 1909.

The 1958 inscription will be written by the men re-decorating the flat — Williamson and Sharpe of Church Street. They intend to refer to the fact that in 1958 the first manmade satellite was circling in space.

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A hint that Newark’s carparking restrictions may be overhauled was given at a meeting of the highways and public works committee.

The committee reported that, following the completion of the layby at the bus-stop at the east end of the parish church application had been made to the Ministry of Transport for the removal of “no waiting� restrictions on the whole of Appletongate.

Councillor A. E. Whomsley said he was rather doubtful about the wisdom of this idea. He thought it could be done in one part of the street without causing congestion, but between the police station and churchyard there would be chaos, particularly in view of the bus service in both directions.