A special pictorial account of Newark's past.  Click on thumbnail to expand image.

	The Archbishop of York visited Newark in 1950.
	Newark Boys' Club members gathered for a festival celebration in this picture taken in 1953.
	The River Trent at Newark was drained in 1950 to allow maintainance work to be carried out.
	These youngsters, pictured in 1950 recieve a lesson in beekeeping.
	A visit from the school nurse used to be a regular occurrence.
	Advertiser reader N. Gray of California Road Farndon, has sent in this picture taken on a snowy morning some time after 1946.
	The Newark Amateur Operatic Society production of 1951 was The Yeoman of the Guard.
	This Picture of Newark Parish Church bells on the back of a lorry was taken in 1954.
	The Summer of 1957 was so hot that these two young women are trying to fry an egg on the pavement.
	This Newark Conservative Association fashion parade took place in 1952.
	The Magnus Grammar School Rugby team lined up for this photograph which was taken in 1955.
	These children are pictured leaving Newark Parish Church after the King's memorial service in 1952.
	This line up is the Woolworths staff photograph taken in 1950.
	A mother and her two children are pictured on the steps of one of the Bowbridge Camp huts in 1950.
	Passers-by watch workmen outside the Ossington Coffee Palace.
	These children are watching television in hospital.
	Vina Cooke is pictured in 1958 with the start of her doll collection.
	Advertiser reader Mr Kevin Topham has provided this photograph of a woman in punt at Edingley Mill.
	These youngsters pictured in 1955 were all members of the Advertiser Children's Club.

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