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 28, 2000
ABOVE: Pupils at Newark’s Orchard School are helping children in Kosovo.
Pictured with some of the toiletries and stationery they have helped to collect for schools in Kosovo are Emma Tetley, 12, Kerry Hill, 14, and Luke Evans, 13.
The supplies will be taken out by the Nottinghamshire Police Aid Convoy.
* The idea of moving Newark market to the new Riverside Park arena looks likely to be dropped.
Council officers were told to investigate plans for a regular clearance of Market Place stalls after favourable reaction to their clearance for the millennium celebrations.
The suggestion to move the market emerged in the council’s initial report into options.
* The manager of Newark’s Famous Old Post Office pub is being sought by police after vanishing with his 15-year-old son.
About £22,000 - the Easter takings - is also missing.
The Old Post Office, Kirkgate, opened two weeks ago after a £¾m refurbishment.
* A Newark mill which employs 18 people is to close.
Staff at J. Bibby Agriculture Ltd, of Northgate, were told of the impending closure on Wednesday.
The mill, which produces animal feed and seed is being closed by its owners Associated British Nutrition as a cost-cutting measure.
* Thousands of carrots covered the A1 at Newark, blocking three lanes for five hours.
A lorry overturned on the southbound carriageway off the Brownhills roundabout.
* Employers in the area heard how trading on the internet could transform their business.
This was the subject of a breakfast meeting on e-commerce at Edwinstowe House. It was attended by 35 people.
50 years ago - May 3, 1975
ABOVE: The Provost of Southwell, the Very Rev Francis Pratt, is pictured with a tray of donations presented during a Church Missionary Society children’s festival in Southwell.
In front are guitarists Paul Bryan and Ken Waite, who led the singing. Surrounding them are some of the children who made contributions.
* The opening of Newark’s new pedestrian shopping centre should be delayed until the A46 bypass is open, Notts county councillor Mr John Moore told a public inquiry.
Mr Moore said no thought had been given to the effect the St Mark’s Lane development would have on the rest of the town.
The shopping centre, on which work is due to start in January, would cause even greater congestion than at present, he felt.
* After two years of negotiations and manufacture, a £17,500 eight-ton coal-dust processing plant started its journey to Calcutta from the Newark engineering works of Wakes and Lamb.
The plant produces egg-shaped brickettes from dust and pitch and in India it will provide fuel for a steel plant.
* Governors of the Minster Grammar School and the Edward Cludd Secondary School are urging that the line of the proposed Southwell bypass be fixed to the south of the Cludd school.
One of the proposed routes runs directly between the playing fields of the both schools and as the schools are set to become one comprehensive, it is felt that it would be wrong to put a road through the middle.
* About 1,000 Scouts and Girl Guides took part in a St George’s Day parade to Barnbygate Methodist Church, Newark.
The parade, which organisers claim to be the biggest held in the town of any organisation, was led by Newark Town Band and the Salvation Army band.
