What was making the news in the Newark Advertiser in 1924, 1974 and 1999
The Advertiser has opened its archives to look at what was making the news this week 25, 50 and 100 years ago.
25 years ago - December 3, 1999
ABOVE: Newark fundraisers showed their generosity in a variety of weird and wonderful ways for the annual Children In Need appeal.
The manager of Newark Morrisons’ salad bar, Mrs Mandie Pudwell, bathed in jelly and custard from 9am to 7pm. The mother of two raised about £400.
* Up to 150 jobs could be created if a mill shop and warehouse for a site alongside the Al on Newark Industrial Estate is given the go-ahead by planners.
News of the proposed 45,000sq ft development on a six-acre site just behind the Brownhills motorhomes complex follows RHP Bearings' announcement of 160 jobs for its Northern Road factory.
But a spokesman for developers Lindsey Securities warned this could be the last chance for such a scheme after refusal last year of a similar development when Boundary Mill Stores wanted to move from Grantham.
* Pupils at the Bowbridge Junior School, Newark, performed music and drama to mark the school’s golden jubilee.
The Bowbridge JAM - Jubilee and Millennium - featured music from the Fifties to present day and all 243 pupils took part.
* Meetings of Newark and Sherwood District Council are to be broadcast live on the internet.
The Informed Citizen project is being set up by Newark and Sherwood College. The meetings will not be accessible on home computers. Live audio and visual lines will be available at community learning centres throughout the district.
* The cost of school meals in Nottinghamshire will go up by 2p from January to £1.50 for primary and £1.58 for secondary pupils.
50 years - December 7, 1974
ABOVE: Youngsters of Glentwood Nursery School entertained the elderly at Farndon’s Trent House Home.
* The bread crisis worsened through panic buying, according to Mr Ralph Brown, proprietor of Freeman Brown Ltd, a bakery firm with shops in Bottesford, Foston and Newark.
“Housewives helped create the sugar shortage by this crazy mass buying and they’ve done the same with bread,” he said.
He said they had been turning our four times the normal production, making 1,200 loaves a day.
Elsewhere, the story was the same with shopkeepers having to deal with long and sometimes angry queues.
One firm in Newark, Noble and Son, have been issuing bread tickets to protect their regular customers.
* Three bomb hoax telephone calls were made in the Newark district on Saturday night.
The first was to the Rose and Crown at Farndon. Customers were asked to leave and police searched the premises.
The second call was to the REME Workshop duty room but again nothing was found.
A third, by a drunk, said a bomb was about to go off on Yorke Drive.
* Christmas calypsos were sung during evening service at Southwell Methodist Church.
The service was conducted by the Rev Keith Hunt, who used a tape recorder to provide accompaniment for the calypsos.
* Cyclists who carry packages and bags on their bicycle handlebars are a menace to other road users, a Newark police spokesman said.
He pointed out that every day cyclists could be seen wobbling along Newark streets and the only reason was the staggering progress was front overloading.
100 years ago - December 3, 1924
* The seal of approval and appreciation of extensive sewer disposal works, which the town has recently completed near Crankley Point, was officially bestowed.
At the ceremony the Mayor said it was a red-letter day for Newark, for it marked the culmination of a great and expensive scheme that would, very materially, help in increasing the well-being and health of the people of Newark.
* The newly-formed Newark Rotary Club was successfully launched on Monday when the inaugural luncheon took place at the Ram Hotel.
The constitution of a Rotary Club consists one representative from each profession and business in the town and the weekly lunch is a short, sharp, punctual affair.
* A dance took place in the Trebeck Hall, Southwell, organised by St Mary’s Football Club on behalf of Crouch, who broke his arm in a match at Nottingham.
Mr John Osbourne was at the piano with Mr C. Wyer playing the violin and the lady friends of the players took charge of the refreshments.
* There was a large attendance at the sale by auction of Lord Middleton’s Muskham Estate conducted at the Town Hall.
The principal item was Muskham Grange Farm and Coldharbour Farm, both at South Muskham, and offered together the property was sold to Mr S. Colyer of Kelham for £11,250.
* While a church service was in progress at Flintham the alarm was given that a fire had broken out at Grange Farm and a number of stacks was ablaze.
The church was at once emptied and all hands were soon engaged in battling with the flames.
