July 27, 1955

Gardening has always been the hobby of Mr Arthur Kind (pictured in this Advertiser Newsphoto) of Ivydene Cottage, Collingham - all through the 32 years that he was Collingham Station Master and even more during the 23 years since his retirement.

And at Collingham VPA show on Saturday, the 84-years-old veteran outclassed the younger gardeners Ñ he won the cup for the most points in the show.

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With a few days still to go, July is almost sure to prove a record month for Newark Swimming Baths. Up to Monday, the total attendance of the pool had reached 24,333 - compared with 4,614 for the whole of July last year.

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The carved lectern given by the Old Magnusian's Association to their school in memory of a former headmaster was unveiled and dedicated during the tea interval of a cricket match on Saturday.

Wearing open-necked shirts, flannels and boots, the cricketers and their friends heard the headmaster, Dr N. Clayton, say that the "motley, but representative gathering" would have pleased the school's founder.

The lectern was unveiled by Mr David H. Slater MBE, president of the Old Magnusians' Association.

"We are here this afternoon to pay a fitting tribute to a well beloved headmaster of this school," he said.

"The Rev Henry Gorse was headmaster from 1911 to 1926 and this great man and churchman added to the traditions of Magnus by his sincerity, devotion to his ideals and strength of character.

"Unfortunately many of us here today only met him once or twice, but that was sufficient to make us realise why his own Old Boys were completely devoted to him and always gave him such a welcome on his return visits to Newark."
 

July 20, 1954

Sitting watching other children competing in the Sconce Hills swimming sports at the Sherwood Avenue Pool, Newark, on Thursday morning, was 14-years-old Ruth Naylor.

Ruth was not good enough to enter the sports, but two days earlier she had saved a friend from drowning in the Trent.

Ruth, who lives in Cotton Square, Millgate, was minding a child near Mill Bridge, when she saw 13-years-old Rita Smith in difficulty and calling for help.

Although not a strong swimmer, Ruth went in and pulled her to the bank.

She was complimented on her courage by head-master of the Sconce Hills School, Mr R. W. Bond, at assembly on Thursday morning.

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For the first time, examples of house-painting and decorating formed a major part of the 25th annual exhibition by students of Newark County Technical College and school of Art at the Tudor Hall on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

The new section represented a recent development at the college - the starting of day release classes attended by the boys under-18 who are released by their employers for instruction on one day each week.

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Girls were in the majority of five to one when the names of winners of the fancy dress contest were announced at North Collingham garden fete.

The winners were Marlene Spencer (Fairy Queen) Frances Palmer (Flower Girl) Eileen Johnson (Hula-hula girl) Marlene Bellamy (usherette) David Linggard (sweep) and Marina Brown (Bo-peep).
 

July 13, 1955

The long walk to work is a thing of the past for Miss G. Ellwood, of Alexander Drive, Newark.

She has been walking to her work at Kelham Sugar Factory for the past two years but at the recent Portland Fund old English fair she won a new Hudson cycle presented by Henri's, of Appletongate, Newark.

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Lorryloads of sand and 6,000 bricks arrived at the preparatory school, Highfields, on London Road, Newark, on Friday for the extension of the school assembly hall, and on Saturday afternoon a fete was held in the school grounds to raise money for the building project.

The fete was opened by Mrs G. T. Drummond, of North Collingham, who said she understood that when it was first decided to build, the cost would be about £300. Since then the estimate had risen to nearly £500.

The fete raised about £130 which will be added to a similar amount already raised by the schoolÕs Parent Teacher Association.

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Of 24 sixth formers leaving Newark Girls' High School this term, 15 are to become teachers, and five of the others are to go on to university.

The departing girls included three who have completed a third year in the sixth form - Ann Spafford-Jones, the head girl, who has been at the school for 14 years; Christina Clark who, if successful in her university entrance examination, will be the school's first 13-plus entrant to go to university; and Anne Brooks, who is to be a doctor.
 

July 6, 1955

A new test for young cyclists was included in the third annual children's cycle reliability trial staged by Newark Road Safety Council on Saturday.

In addition to a stringent inspection of their cycles by the police and a long ride through the town over a carefully observed route, the children this year had also to face a brief test of their knowledge of road signs.

The winner of the competition, by half a mark, was Brian Robb (11) of Hawtonville Junior school.

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 Noted broadcaster and author Sir Stephen Tallents, a cousin of Newark's former town clerk, on Saturday opened Newark's newest school, the Bishop Alexander county primary school, on the Winthorpe estate.

Sir Stephen said that he had never spoken in Newark before, but was a refugee-or outcast-from the town.

"My connections with Newark go back a long way," he said. "The earliest Tallents in Newark was in the 17th Century.

"There have been other branches of the family from my great grandfather downwards, to my cousin Hugh."

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A young housewife on Newark's Hawtonville estate is going into business any day now.

She has already bought a barrow and all she needs now is a ladder. Mrs Patricia Cockburn is setting up her own window-cleaning service.

Three months ago she was asked if she would help a local window cleaner, Mr C. P. Wright.

She donned jeans and a gay check shirt, and was soon climbing ladders to high windows.