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 - October 20, 2000
ABOVE: Yorke Drive gala day attracted as a large crowd to the Lincoln Road playing fields and raised £563 towards a new children’s playground on the estate.
There were stalls, sideshows, a bouncy castle, pottery making and face-painting.
The Vicar of St Leonard’s Church, the Rev Pauline Hutchinson, is pictured getting the sponge treatment from Shane Bastable, 8.
* A woman clung on to life amid the horrors of the 115mph Hatfield train crash by gripping a metal bar in the buffet carriage.
Mrs Karen Moore, 40, of Cromwell, said she feels lucky to be alive.
She caught the train from London King’s Cross after meetings in the city and was in the buffet car when she heard a tremendous noise. The carriage flipped on its side and the roof was ripped off.
“I just knew I had to keep clinging on to that bar to stop me falling out of the train,” she said. “All the time I was thinking I just want to see my baby again.”
* Town centre crime has fallen 54% since the official switch-on of the Newark security cameras a week ago.
A full evaluation ofthe effectiveness of the system is underway but provisional figures for specific crimes, such as burglary and car crime, indicate an even greater effect.
* The first parade and service to be held in Newark by sea cadets to mark the Battle Of Trafalgar will take place on Sunday.
* Champion Irish racehorse Giant’s Causeway was at Southwell Racecourse to try out the all-weather track.
The work-out was part of preparations for next month’s Breeders’ Cup Classic at Churchill Downs, Kentucky, USA.
50 years ago - October 25, 1975
ABOVE: Balderton Scouts radio station GB 2 BS took an unnatural turn on Sunday when a car demolished the aerial.
Three amateur operators set up the station in a marquee at the Scouts’ Queen Street headquarters as the Newark district’s contribution to Jamboree Of The Air, in which Scout groups across the world tried to contact as many other groups as possible.
A driver leaving another function at the hall collided with the aerial and took them off air for a time.
* The volume of heavy traffic though Millgate should be studied again, Newark Trades Council agreed at a meeting.
Mr Charles Jackson said: “I am beginning to get very nervous each time I walk along there. Millgate is very dangerous and narrow.
“But any move to re-route traffic along Victoria Street would be nothing short of ludicrious. It would only move the problem to the traffic lights at Beaumond Cross.”
They were assured the proposed A46 relief road plans had not been shelved.
* The Newark firm of Worthington-Simpson Ltd are cock-a-hoop. They have just secured an order worth more than £400,000 to supply pumps to a marine engineering and shipbuilding company in South Korea.
It provides further evidence of Worthington-Simpson’s determination to find wider export markets for their products.
* Newark Police has appealed to cyclists to lock-up their machines when they leave them unattended.
About 12 cycle thefts were reported this week - three on Thursday alone.
* Southwell’s first WRVS Luncheon Club opened at Coghill Court, a complex of old people’s flats off Westgate.
There were 13 people present for the inaugural lunch where meals cost 8p plus 2p for a cup of tea. They are cooked at Staythorpe.
* About 400 homes in the Southwell area were blacked out by a power failure caused when a wildfowl flew into an overhead powerline.
100 years ago - October 21, 1925
* The distinguished Colonel of the Sherwood Foresters, General Sir Horace L. Smith-Dorrien, attended the annual memorial service to the fallen brave in Newark in Newark Parish Church and later inspected the 8th Battalion of the Sherwood Foresters in the Market Place.
There was a large congregation, including many relatives of the fallen soldiers.
Between 40 and 50 veterans - some in their old scarlet tunics - of the 4th Notts paraded under the command of Colonel E. H. Nicholson, Newark, who served with the regiment for 35 years.
After the church service the Battalion lined up facing the Town Hall with members of the old 4th Notts. In his inspection, General Smith-Dorrien chatted with some of the men and was keenly interested in the veterans.
After the inspection, the General stood on the Town Hall steps and took the salute as the Battalion marched past on the way to the Drill Hall for dismissal.
* The Marchioness of Titchfield will present the prizes at the South Ward Newark Women’s Conservative Association whist drive at the Town Hall.
During the intervals between the drive and the presentations a balloon polo match - 18 balloons a side - will be played. This will be the first match of its kind in Newark.
* Mr A. J. Loughton had a large audience in the Southwell Theatre on Monday night when he showed a wonderful collection of photographs in colour on the ‘Paget Plate’.
Many fine flowers and objects of art were put upon the screen and the process of taking colour photographs was explained by the lecturer.
* George Robey and his company will prove a great draw and the Palace is expected to be packed on Friday night.
There are, however, plenty of good seats left, for the theatre can accommodate 1,500 people.