What was making the news in the Newark Advertiser in 1925, 1975 and 2000
The Advertiser has once again opened its archives to see what was making the news this week 25, 50 and 100 years ago.
25 years ago - June 23, 2000
ABOVE: Young music-makers from 11 infants’ schools took part in an annual festival.
The event, hosted by Bowbridge Infants’ and Nursery School, Newark, took the theme old and new.
* Plans to convert a Newark town centre eyesore back into a major hotel look set to be blocked.
London-based Abraham Holdings Ltd wants to demolish part of the derelict Robin Hood Hotel.
The 18th Century frontage on Lombard Street would be kept but the owners want to build a three-storey extension on the Portland Street roadside.
But the plans have been labelled inadequate, appalling and unacceptable by bodies asked to comment on the plans.
* Campaigners fighting for a leisure centre at the former Sconce Hills School will protest on the steps of Newark Town Hall.
The Save Our Sconnies group will be asking for public support in its battle to stop the school being demolished and replaced by homes.
They want the school building to be turned into a leisure centre.
* A Newark band will support rock star Alice Cooper on his forthcoming European tour.
Four-piece Lukan have previously supported Def Leppard, Thunder and ex-Queen guitarist Brian May.
The band are recording their debut album in both Newark and the studios of UB40 in Birmingham.
* A television chef has given a cooking lesson to a teenager who says she is useless in the kitchen.
Dianna Mills, 14, of Churchill Drive, Newark, applied for a place on children’s cookery show Can’t Cook, Won’t Cook with Ainsley Harriott.
She went to the BBC studios in Birmingham with her sister Leanda, 21, who was her official taster.
* Plans have been drawn up to complete the development on land around Newark’s Lord Ted pub with a nursing home and housing.
The plans have been submitted by PDRH, which already has planning permission for a 40-bedroom hotel on part of the site.
50 years ago - June 28, 1975
ABOVE: Radio Trent arrives in Newark. Here, disc jockey Graham Knight chats with youngsters of the CofE secondary school, Barnby Road, from the new Notts station’s outside broadcasting van.
Listening in is bearded John Peters, the disc jockey who will host the breakfast show when broadcasting begins at 6am on Thursday.
* The Old Magnusians’ Association are to make a formal objection to the Secretary of State for Education over the comprehensive system planned for Newark from September next year.
The association is seeking 10,000 signatures and will be carrying out a house-to-house canvass. In addition, the association hopes to have a stall in Newark Market Place.
The Old Magnusians support the view that the system was ideological and would contribute to a deterioration in standards.
* Ten members of a drama class at the junior college of Newark Technical College appeared on Tiswas.
The children were able to speak to Chris Tarrant, John Asher, Trevor East and Peter Tomlinson and had lunch in the studio canteen.
* Former Reading, Tottenham Hotspur and Notts County goalkeeper Roy Brown has signed for East Midland Regional leaguers Newark Town as player-coach.
Mr Brown turned down offers from newly-promoted Third Division side Mansfield Town and Northern Premier League side Boston Town before agreeing to join Newark for expenses only.
He will meet the players for the first time at a training session at Devon Park.
* Twenty-year-old Helen Coleman from Ollerton is making a name for herself in the entertainment world as Helen Day.
She reached a new peak on Saturday when she won on the television programme New Faces.
Now, she and her backing group are discussing the recording of their song Supachild with Mr Tony Hatch, the songwriter.
100 years ago - June 24, 1925
Glorious weather favoured the annual Festival of the Newark and District Sunday School Union when large crowds again thronged the Market Place and streets of the procession route.
While the schools were assembling, the Newark Borough Band played selections and during the procession the Salvation Army Band assisted.
A large crowd assembled on the Sconce Hills for the evening festivities and it was estimated that never before had so many people assembled in the amphitheatre.
* Some startling statements regarding schools are made in the annual report of Dr Christopher Tibbits, senior assistant school medical officer for the county.
Something towards improvement is steadily being done, but very slow indeed in the process. Bad playgrounds, cold, stuffy, dark, cheerless classrooms and unheated cloakrooms, unsatisfactory windows, primitive out-offices, and antiquated furniture all remain.
* The members of the Newark YMCA entertained and beat Grantham YMCA at tennis, billiards, draughts, bridge and whist on Saturday and the evening in the hut brought the interesting day to a close.
* The Bishop of Southwell has just confirmed the 11th brother of one family.
Mr and Mrs Pacey have had 12 sons confirmed, the eldest being confirmed 23 years ago by Bishop Ridding.
All the other 11 have been confirmed by the present bishop.
* The difficulty of carrying ices when going for a picnic has been solved at the Palace Shop and Cafe, Newark, where ice cones that will remain frozen for two or three hours are on sale.
