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25 YEARS AGO
May 30, 1997
ARTWORK by pupils of Besthorpe Primary School will be seen by thousands next month.
It will be part of the BBC Gardeners’ World Live National Flower and Garden Show at the NEC in Birmingham.
BULLDOZERS are poised to move in to demolish most of Newark’s old hospital.
But despite the demolition plans, the old landmark, which has stood at the junction of London Road and Sherwood Avenue for more than a century will remain.
It is the buildings behind the facade, which were added over the years, that will go, including operating theatres, mortuary, accident and emergency and x-ray department.
THE names of Lilley and Stone may disappear when Newark’s new schools open in September.
Governors have suggested Newark High School as the new name when Lilley and Stone and Sconce Hills combine.
SOUTHWELL MINSTER is taking steps to ensure a blaze like that which destroyed part of York Minster could speedily be dealt with.
A plan has been submitted for a huge water tank to be installed on land close to the cathedral. It would enable the fire service to have a large enough reserve water supply.
THE choir stalls of a village church and the modelling world have little in common — but Rachel Irvine is just as happy in both.
Rachel, 16, a member of Bottesford Parish Church since the age of 11, is on the books of a London model agency and is featured in a swimwear fashion feature shot in Mauritius for this month’s company magazine.
50 YEARS AGO
June 3, 1972
WORKERS give a massive vote in favour of a work-in at RHP Newark if the firm make nearly 600 redundant.
If workers are given redundancy notices they will hand them back and continue working.
That was the advice of works convenor Ron Marshall, who addressed a mass open-air meeting of workers on the carpark outside the Newark plant.
Nearly 2,000 workers at the meeting voted overwhelmingly to fight management plans for redundancy.
THE Department of Environment has approved facelift schemes for Newark’s Town Wharf, Bell’s Warehouse, and the riverside towpath from Town Lock to Bell’s Warehouse.
The government will make grants of about £22,580 towards the schemes.
NEWARK’S Southfield House flats set a new standard for self-contained accommodation for the elderly, says the latest issue of the Architect’s Journal.
Southfield House, designed by Gordon Benoy and Partners for Newark Housing Association, is subject of a 16-page article.
A RECORD number of new telephone lines were installed in the Midlands in the six-month period ending March 31.
More than 21,000 new lines were connected in Nottingham, bringing the total to 201,000.
IT IS unlikely that old signposts will be allowed to stand along English roads when they go continental, despite the hard fight to save them by Newark MP Ted Bishop.
But he has had more success with milestones.
100 YEARS AGO
May 31, 1922
A VIOLENT storm broke out over Newark, lightning and thunder being followed by torrential rain.
A cow belonging to Captain J. N. Mowbray, standing under a tree near the sugar factory on Kelham Road, was killed by lightning, the bark of the tree being torn off.
THE children of the National School, Southwell, celebrated Empire Day in a special manner.
The girls dressed in red, white and blue and sang Land Of Hope And Glory, God Bless The Prince Of Wales, and other national pieces.
Many of the girls wore garlands of daisies, the national Empire Day flower, and danced while the head girl held the Union flag aloft.
The finale was all the scholars standing at salute and singing the National Anthem.
THE annual meeting of the Notts Society For The Prosecution Of Felons was held at the Robin Hood Hotel, Newark.
A hundred posters were ordered to be printed warning evil doers of the consequences of doing damage to the property of the association.
NEWARK TENNIS CLUB is in a very flourishing condition judging by the animated scenes on the courts each evening.
There has been a record number of entries for the tournament, no less than 140 names having been handed to the secretary.
BRONZED and feeling much better for a fortnight’s training under ideal conditions, the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry returned from their camp a Babworth Park.
Lt-Col F. V. Willey commanded a very happy assembly that combined serious training with the social side in a splendid way.
