What was making the news in the Newark Advertiser in 1924, 1974 and 1999
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 - October 22, 1999
ABOVE: Newark fire chief Pat Cathcart has completed an 80-mile walk along the Great Wall of China to raise money for the National Deaf Children's Society.
Station Officer Cathcart (41) has raised over £2,300 for the society thanks to the support of local people and industry.
* Newark Market Place will be cleared of stalls before New Year's Eve so crowds can gather there to mark the dawn of the new millennium.
Newark and Sherwood district council's leisure services committee agreed they did not want the stalls to become a possible target for over-enthusiastic revellers.
The council has estimated the operation will cost between £4,000 and £6,000 for staffing, transport and storage.
* Television newsreader Carol Barnes is used to being in front of the but her latest assignment in Newark came with a difference.
She was at the Kiln Warehouse offices on Trentside to perform the official switch-on of the long-awaited Newark town centre security cameras.
She pushed a button to activate a video wall display that gave the audience a whistlestop tour of the town presenting an operator’s eye-view from the 18 camera locations around Newark.
* NSK-RHP Ransome Band came fourth in the National Brass Band Championship of Great Britain.
The competition attracted 20 of the finest bands from England. Scotland and Wales to the Royal Albert Hall. London.
The Newark band, which has 28 members and is led by musical director Mr Brian Grant, were the last to take to the stage before an audience of 5,000 people.
50 years ago - October 26, 1974
ABOVE: When the two Newark Scout groups took part in the 17th World Scout Jamboree on the Air, 92 contacts were made.
One station operated from Northgate, Newark, and the other from Queen Street, Balderton.
Scout leader Dave Turner, of 7th Newark troop, talks to a German counterpart while Andrew Tricket-Bell logs the call.
Most European countries were contacted.
* Though job centres are being set up throughout the East Midlands area, a spokesman for the Employment Service Agency said it would be 1976 before such a venture would be provided in Newark.
The new job centre is the Labour Exchange of the 70s and is proving very successful in giving the customer exactly what they want.
* Notts County Council department of planning and transportation will undertake a public participation exercise on the route of Southwell bypass next February.
It is intended to put forward alternative traffic management schemes for the centre at the same time.
* Fears that indiscriminate development of Farndon harbour could destroy the character of the village have been expressed by the parish council.
The objections were prompted by proposals to build chalets, a clubhouse and a dry-dock at the harbour, which according to Mrs Dorothy Brown, could turn Farndon into a ‘creeping Mablethorpe’.
* Experiments are to be made into the use of the nave of Southwell Minster fo 9.30am Holy Communion service on Sundays.
The necessity has arisen because of the ever-growing numbers who attend the service.
100 years ago - October 22, 1924
Marked enthusiasm has characterised the opening of the Marquess of Titchfield’s campaign for the Conservative cause in the Newark Division.
He has been busily engaged addressing three and four meetings a night and votes of confidence, which have been unanimously passed, have testified to the esteem in which he is held in the various parts of the division.
Lord Titchfield’s campaign will be wound up with a large mass meeting at the Palace Theatre on the eve of the poll, when the speakers will include a working man.
* The question of the proposed alterations and adjustments to the Newark Guardians’ Cottage Home at Balderton was once again discussed.
The Master of the Workhouse, Mr F. Harrison, reported that the weekly average number of children in the workhouse for the last three years eligible for the Cottage House was ten.
It was agreed to apply for sanction to the scheme and on its receipt from the Ministry, tenders will be invited.
* Two cases of failing to obey the signals of the police were heard by the borough magistrates.
Each were fined £2 for the offence and the Bench emphasised the need for absolute compliance with police signals are this dangerous crossroads.
* Promenaders fined - defendants who, according to the constable, treated their offence as a ‘huge joke’ were before county magistrates.
A number of Newark youths and girls were charged with obstructing the footpath on the Muskham Road. Each was fined 5s.
* A correspondent writes: The non-dancing inhabitants of Edingley would like to make a protest against the avoidable noise on the occasion of dances in the village. Surely high spirits can be released in the dance room instead of the immediate vicinity. This would give Edingley inhabitants a chance for natural slumber.”
