What was making the news in the Newark Advertiser in 1925, 1975 and 2000
The Advertiser has opened its archives to see what was making the news this week 25, 50 and 100 years ago.
25 years ago - July 14, 2000
ABOVE: Sports stars and celebrities took on a team of pub landlords in the fifth annual match for Newark and District Hospice Aid.
The celebrities were jointly captained by former Emmerdale star Frazer Hines, who lives in Coddington, and former England and British Lions rugby star Dusty Hare.
Other Emmerdale stars in the team included John Middleton, who plays Ashley the vicar, Glen Lamont who plays Richie Carter, and Christopher Smith who plays Robert Sugden.
* Newark Cemetery has been branded a disgrace to the town and an insult to the memory of those buried there.
Relatives of people buried in the London Road cemetery say they have been brought to tears by the state of the graves and the grass.
The grass has been allowed to grow more than 3ft high in places and where it has been cut, it has been strewn over headstones and pathways.
* A book for people to record their tributes to the Queen Mother will be launched by the Mayor of Newark, Mr Maxwell Cope.
The Book of Celebration, to mark the Queen Mother’s 100th birthday, will be available for people to sign in the town council reception office until her birthday on August 4.
* Plans to redevelop the former Harvey Avenue council estate at Coddington have been submitted.
Newark and Sherwood District Council has been rehousing tenants since January with the last expected to move out this week.
The estate was built by the RAF and was known as Coddington Camp. Plans have been submitted for a mixed development of 209 homes.
* The three-day Americana at Newark Showground attracted thousands of people.
Visitors and traders came from home and abroad for the event, where the entertainers literally had people singing and dancing in the rain.
50 years ago - July 19, 1975
ABOVE: Newark town crier Mr Bert Hall leads members of The Sealed Knot in the gala parade organised by Newark Tourist Board.
The parade lacked the pageantry and spectacle it had hoped to achieve. Despite this, hundreds of people lined the streets.
* Newark Town chairman Mr John Moore signed a 21-year lease on the club’s council-owned ground at Bowbridge Road.
Signing the lease marks the latest step in the club’s bid to restore top class football to the town.
Newark has not had a town ground since before the second world war when the old Town club was disbanded because of lack of funding.
* The RSPCA is considering a bravery award for Amber, a Cavalier King Charles spaniel who may have saved her owner’s life in a fire at the Cavalier public house, Middlegate, Newark.
Licensee Mrs Joyce Doolan was asleep in her flat above the pub when the barking of Amber aroused her.
“If she had not barked I’m sure I would not have woken up and would not be here to tell the story now.”
* As Ransome Hoffman Pollard workers at Newark prepared to start their annual holiday, they heard that the super precision bearing unit’s 120-strong workforce could be doubled in the next three to four years.
The Bowbridge Road Works is being developed in anticipation of increasing overseas demand. The French Peugeot car plant has just approved using RHP bearings for all its machine tools.
New buildings will appear behind the machine shop and assembly hall and the present factory will be remodelled.
100 years ago - July 15, 1925
* Thursday was an outstanding day in the year for many Newark children - the annual festival of the Church Sunday School.
Early in the afternoon the children assembled at their schools, forming a procession that made its way to the Parish Church.
Following the service the procession left for the Sconce Hills, the younger children borne along in decorated wagons. Altogether, about 1,070 children took part.
Following tea, sports games and competitions were indulged in.
The lantern procession is, of course, the special feature of this festival. Shortly before ten Sconce Hill shone with a myriad of twinkling lights. The procession then wended its way to the Market Place, crowds thronging the route.
* The Newark Workhouse Master reported that Arthur Kirk, an inmate, had escaped with clothing belonging to the Guardians.
He received the following letter from Kirk: “I have got to Ranskill, working for a publican pulling peas. I can only pull two bags a day, earning 2s. What am I to do? Don’t send me to prison. I get get tailoring. Write back and tell me what you think about it.”
No action was taken.
* On Saturday night a man named Dingley was cycling round the corner at the bottom of Queen Street, Southwell, and on turning into King Street found himself meeting a car.
In trying to avoid it he was pitched through the large plate glass window of Mr W. Dowse, the draper.
The man was badly cut but it was fortunate he was not more severely hurt.
* More gamblers were before the county magistrates charged with gaming with cards on Sunday.
Pc Hopkinson said he watched the defendants playing cards and saw money being passed.
Mr W. E. Knight said they must be earning too much money if they could afford to waste it playing cards.
They were each fined 5s.