November 26, 1952

All was excitement when this Advertiser newsphoto was taken on Saturday of the Gammage family. For Mrs Gammage was speaking to her son in Durban, South Africa.

For years Sydney Wexton Gammage has waited for a telephone at his Durban home. As soon as it was installed he arranged to telephone his parents in Newark whom he has not seen for ten years.

The Post Office arranged telephones for the Gammages in the Newark Drill Hall - they live in Crescent Place.

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An electricity breakdown in Newark yesterday morning switched off cookers and radios in homes, cut fires and lights in shops and offices, stopped some factories production, put the X-ray apparatus at Newark Hospital out of action, and held up traffic at Beaumond Cross, when all the lights flicked to the stop.

All this happened on one of the coldest days of the year. Newark municipal offices reported a temperature of 26 degrees at 10am.

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English and French customs were observed at a New Ollerton wedding on Saturday - the cake was cut with a French ceremonial sword and the bride's veil was torn to shreds which were then handed to every guest at the reception.

The bride was Miss Shirley Frances Juliette Walker, daughter of Mr and Mrs F. Walker of La Cigale, Wellow, and the bride groom Mr John Edmund Goodwin, son of Mr and Mrs J.T Goodwin of St John Street, Mansfield.

November 19, 1952

The money which was being spent on education in Nottinghamshire was a challenge to the teaching profession and to parents said Mr J. Edward Mason, director of education, when he spoke at Lilley and Stone Girls' School speech day in the Savoy Cinema, Newark, on Friday.

Girls could remember with gratitude, said Mr Mason, that in the first half of the century there had been a wonderful emancipation of womanhood. They now had opportunities for the same rich variety of chances that boys had.

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Saturday was an exciting day for four-year-old Ronald Boddy of New Street, Newark. It was the day the postman delivered a letter from Buckingham Palace for him.

Ronald, the son of Mr and Mrs F. Boddy, sent a birthday card to the Palace for Prince Charles' fourth birthday.

Saturday's reply in an unstamped envelope was from a lady-in-waiting. It read: "I am commanded by the Queen to thank you for your kind message of congratulation on the occasion of the Duke of Cornwall's birthday."

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Lieutenant-colonel Basil Ringrose DSO who next week flies by Comet to take a post with the Colonial Office in Malaya will on Saturday be married to Miss Jean Macdonald a member of Scotland's oldest and most famous clan.

Colonel Ringrose, who is the son of Dr Ernest Ringrose of Bullpit House, Balderton, won his DSO in 1941 while commanding Ringrose Force on special duties in Abyssinia. At that time he was directing the operation of 22,000 Ethiopian patriots.

His decoration was the first DSO to be awarded to a Newark man in the war. He went abroad with the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry and served with them in the desert.

November 12, 1952

The parish church at Sutton-on-Trent was filled to capacity on Sunday morning for the service of Remembrance and dedication of the Lych Gate which has been erected as a memorial to the Fallen of the last war.

The service was conducted by the vicar, the Rev R. T. Keal. At the gate the unveiling of the bronze plaque, on which are inscribed the Names of the Fallen, was performed by Col. H. Vere-Laurie.

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As Foxhunter, the Olympic jumper made his first show ring appearance at a post war Newark Show, the organisers of next year's event are to consider a new competition with a trophy to be called the Foxhunter Cup.

Mr R. D. K. Bradley of Thorpe made the suggestion at the annual meeting of Newark Agricultural Society at the Robin Hood Hotel.

Mr G. A. Fillingham, retiring president, who was in the chair, said he thought it was a sound idea and it was decided that discussion of the details should be left to the show council's first meeting.

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A furniture van was blown half-over the parapet of the Great North Road railway bridge at North Muskham during Thursday night's gale. No one was hurt.

Four feet of stone coping was knocked off the parapet on to the line-side below and British Railways were told by the police of the possibility of an obstruction. Trains were not delayed, but drivers were warned.

Passing lorries were stopped, and, with the help of the drivers, the van was pulled away from the wall.

November 5, 1952

British Railways District Goods Superintendent, Mr R. B. Temple, recieved a safe driving award at the first annual dinner of Newark Railway motor drivers held last week. The dinner was at the Robin Hood Hotel.

A 17-year-old Kirklington boy lifted three-quarters of an acre of sugar beet in a Kelham field on Saturday.

Harold Wilson was the youngest operator in a mechanical beet harvesting competition organised by British Sugar Corporation's Kelham factory and the National Agricultural Advisory Service. And he was the winner.

Newarkers who refuse the offer of a free chest X-ray by the Lincolnshire Mass Radiograph Unit because they think a public 'striptease'is necessary, are making a mistake.

The unit will be at Ransome and Marles' factory on November 24, and will make Hawtonville Hospital its Newark headquarters for three weeks.

Mr P. M.P. Crampton, the organising secretary, said: "People need fear no embarrassment. It is quite unnecessary for them to strip down to the waist."

A new bar has opened at the Robin Hood Hotel, Newark, and replaces the lounge on the right of the main entrance.