What was making the news in the Newark Advertiser in 1925, 1975 and 2000
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 - June 9, 2000
ABOVE: Pupils helped position thousands of tiny tile pieces to create a mosaic depicting life in Bleasby.
Libby Kirkham, 7, and Poppy Flint, 4, were among pupils at the village school to help make the 6ft by 6ft mosaic.
The mosaic will be put in the school playground.
* More than 230 jobs are to be created at a Woolworth’s superstore in Newark.
The 65,000sq ft Big W store planned for Warwick and Richardson Brewery site on Northgate has been welcomed by Newark and Sherwood planners.
Deputy planning director Mike Evans said the council was anxious to keep the town centre alive and planners had agonised over the application.
“We feel on balance that it will only serve to regenerate Northgate and will be a catalyst to redeveloping other property in the area,” he said.
* The Union Flag is to fly from Newark Town Hall while the current Mayor of Newark, Mr Maxwell Cope, is in office.
He told a reception in Newark Town Hall after the annual Mayor’s Sunday service there were rules about when the national flag must be flown. There was nothing, he said, to say it could be flown only on those days.
Mr Cope said: “I have asked that the Union Jack be flown on all days when our flagpole would otherwise be empty.”
* Newark Castle has finally got the bandstand its grounds should have had in the 19th Century.
Workmen are putting the finishing touches to the £60,000 stand, installed in the centre of the grounds, in time for the series of summer concerts.
* A 3,305-name petition calling for the former Sconce Hills School, Newark, to be turned into a leisure centre is to be passed to Nottinghamshire County Council.
Members of the Save Our Sconnies team say urgent action is needed as plans have been submitted by the county council to demolish buildings at the school and use that part of the site for about 80 homes.
50 years ago - June 14, 1975
ABOVE: All eyes are on the joywheel arrow at Newark Parish Liuli Fair in the vicarage gardens.
A total of £400 was raised to help finance a project for the relief of TB and leprosy at St Anne’s Hospital, Liuli, Tanzania.
Newark Castle is becoming dangerous. The walls are being steadily worn away and rain followed by heavy frost, could cause stone blocks to explode over visitors.
A council meeting was told it was impossible to assess the cost of repairs but £100,000-£200,000 was not unlikely.
The possibility of Notts firms using the Trent to ship their goods abroad, with Nottingham and Newark becoming barge container depots, is being investigated by a working party set up by the British Waterways Board.
The working party is looking into the commercial viability of the river and to find out if it would be worthwhile recommending a major market study.
A former public house may be taken over by Newark District Council and turned into a halfway house for homeless families.
The pub, The Malt Shovel in Northgate, Newark, is on offer for £7,000 but the council hopes to negotiate a lower price.
Fifty-one children were born and 114 people died in Newark District Council’s area between April 1 and May 23.
100 years ago - June 10, 1925
An ambitious scheme of redecoration of their chapel us being undertaken by the Barnbygate Wesleyans.
Last year the organ was repaired and electric lighting installed, and it has now been decided to repaint and decorate the whole building and place new seating in the gallery.
The work is expected to cost about £2.000 and to raise the money bazaars, fetes and concerts will be held during the summer months.
* For refusing to carry out the work allotted to him at Newark Workhouse, John Morris was sentenced to 14 days’ imprisonment at a special sitting of the borough magistrates.
* The Farndon Scouts held a successful senior camp at Rolleston during Whitsun, under Scouter Osborn.
Arriving on Saturday, the tent was pitched and tea partaken of. On the Monday Scout work and games were taken until dinner.
Camp was broken at six when the return was made, everyone having spent an enjoyable time.
* All the glories of a summer-like day contributed to ensure the success of the sale of work and fete organised by the Newark branch of the Busy Bee Society.
The event was held in the grounds of Ivydene, kindly lent by Mr W. E. Knight.
The stalls, each in a picturesque nook and shadowed by a towering tree, were at the commencement of the afternoon full of articles, typifying the amount of work done during the past year by the members of the society.
Money raised by this work in Newark supports three children in India, one in China and one on the Gold Coast.