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 - April 14, 2000
ABOVE: Infant pupils are to work with a professional gardener, an artist and storyteller to create an allotment and wildlife retreat.
All 120 pupils at Oliver Quibell Infants’ School, Newark, will be involved in the project.
The will use an allotment opposite the school on Bowbridge Road, which will include a spiral gravel path, potting shed, and a scarecrow designed and made by children from recycled materials.
* Traders have warned Newark and Sherwood District Council to keep their hands off Newark Market - or they will stay away in droves.
The council is drawing up suggestions for the future of the market, including moving it to Riverside Park.
The traders say if the move went ahead, Newark town centre would become a ghost town and it could spell the end of the market.
* A £1m infants’ block is to be built at Newark’s Mount Primary School, and the Magnus Church of England School is getting £400,000 to modernise science laboratories.
The Mount has won the money from the government after years of campaigning by governors and staff to replace damp and cramped classrooms.
It will have four classrooms for five to eight year olds, offices, a kitchen, and new school hall.
* An award-winning writer and Oscar nominee was among the literary talent showcased in the Great Hall at Southwell Minster.
More than 120 people attended the latest in the town’s series of literary suppers.
Mr Erik Durschmied, a former BBC and CBS news reporter, whose documentaries were nominated for Oscars in the Sixties, talked about his latest book, The Weather Factor.
50 years ago - April 19, 1974
ABOVE: A jet-age ministry in Newark is not forecast for the town with the arrival of the new vicar, the Rev Benjamin Lewers (pictured with his family) who was inducted as Vicar of Newark on Wednesday.
For although Mr Lewers comes straight to the town from Heathrow Airport, where he was industrial chaplain, looking after the needs of thousands and thousands of air travellers as well as airport staff, he plans to start off quietly in his new charge and ‘take things as they come’.
* Newark industrialists are to be canvassed in a bid to boost traffic along the River Trent.
Half-a-million tons of goods are already carried annually along the Nottingham-Humberside estuary, but British Waterways is convinced that many more firms could make a profitable use of the waterway.
At a meeting in Newark, a working group was set up to look at ideas for developing traffic.
* The first marriage at Newark’s new register office will be performed at noon on Thursday - 30 minutes after the office’s official opening.
The office - in the former municipal buildings in Baldertongate - will be opened before Superintendent Registrar Mr Don Starr marries Mr Douglas Rouse, of Balderton, and Miss Linda Saunders, of Newark.
* Members of the public had their first chance to see the new Trebeck Hall, Southwell.
The new hall is in the former Song School and can seat more than 100 people.
* An American firefighter from Newark, New Jersey, visited Newark Fire Station to exchange fire helmets.
Mr Tim Sager gave it to Station Officer K. Worley, who in return gave him a Newark helmet and an antique set of rank markings.
100 years ago - April 15, 1925
The King Street Mission provided a happy day out for about 60 Newark children and several grown-ups by taking them to Fiskerton.
There were several little ones in the party who had never been in a train before and many were their wondering comments on their first journey.
It was decidedly unfortunate that the day should have been wet but owing to the kindness of the Rev E. S. Longhurst, the Church Room was made into a playground where a jolly time was spent.
* It devolves upon the theatres to provide the chief holiday attraction in Newark and townsfolk cannot grumble.
On very few occasions has the Palace been so crowded as it was when London Nights, a new musical comedy revue, started a week’s run.
Long before the doors opened there was a lengthy queue extending nearly to Barnbygate and the patience exercised in waiting was later well rewarded as the house rocked with laughter.
* In order to get their fixtures finished before the season ends, Newark Thursday have to play two matches tomorrow, both away from home.
The game against Ironmongers at Beeston kicks-off at 3pm, and Long Eaton at their ground is 5.30pm.
* Southwell Minster was beautifully decorated for Easter Day, the choir, altar and sanctuary bearing a profusion of arum lilies and narcissi while the choir stalls and font in the nave were dressed with narcissi, primroses and evergreen.
