Bygones: Stories in the Newark Advertiser from years gone by, including Mount School's Newark in Bloom campaign, Ollerton students visiting British Sugar, and Newark's first Remembrance Day
A round-up of what was making the news in the Advertiser 25, 50 and 100 years ago.
It includes changes to the Buttermarket in Newark, Ransome and Marles' Drama Group's first production, and Newark falling silent for the first time on the first anniversary of the end of the first world war.
Were you a pupil pictured at Mount School supporting the Newark In Bloom campaign?
25 years ago — November 11, 1994
ABOVE: Children at the Mount School helped keep alive the Newark In Bloom campaign when they planted 2,000 spring bulbs at the school.
They were helped by volunteers from Morton Hall young offenders centre, Swinderby.
Plans to extend the front steps of Newark Town Hall into the Market Place to increase the Buttermarket’s impact on shoppers were backed unanimously by the town council.
The scheme involves creating a platform three steps high which would extend into the Market Place from the existing steps, with access ramps for the disabled on each side.
It includes plans to remove the Buttermarket’s downstairs lavatories, retaining those upstairs, and making doors in two of the windows on the Middlegate frontage.
Campaigners fighting controversial plans for homes on the edge of Southwell are dismayed they failed to get the support of district planners.
Newark and Sherwood District Council planning committee voted to support Sir John Starkey’s plans to develop 7.8 acres of agricultural land off Halam Road.
Environment minister Mr John Gummer, in town to present the first Newark Civic Trust Awards for the best local building schemes, has praised the area’s well preserved character.
Mr Gummer said: “Newark is a town that has a long tradition of great civic pride, with many examples of conservation and improvement.”
A junction to provide a link to a future Collingham bypass will not be included when the A46 between Newark and Lincoln is made into a dual carriageway.
50 years ago — November 15, 1969
ABOVE: The story of sugar production, from beet to the refined and finished product in the sugar bowl, was explained and illustrated to a party of pupils from Dukeries Comprehensive School.
They visited the British Sugar Corporation factory at Newark.
Fare increases — some as much as 9d —face bus travellers in many Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire areas in the new year.
An application for all-round fare increases has been made to the Traffic Commissioners by the Trent Motor Traction Company and an inquiry will consider the application.
Ransome and Marles Drama Group is to stage its first production on December 5 and 6.
The play, Hay Fever, by Noel Coward, will be shown in Newark Congregational Church Hall.
Old aged pensioners are invited to the dress rehearsal.
About 80 people attended Southwell Cricket Club’s annual dance at the Robin Hood Hotel, Newark.
It was planned that a beat-the-breathalyser bus should be laid on to transport people to and from the dance, but this was cancelled because only a few people expressed a desire to travel on it.
The Minister of Post and Telecommunications, Mr John Stonehouse, has told Newark MP Mr Ted Bishop that pensioners will not get a reduction in the cost of their TV licences.
Mr Bishop had pressed for a reduced rate after representations from many organisations at a meeting.
100 years ago — November 12, 1919
Yesterday was Armistice Day, and at the fine suggestion of the King, the whole nation paused “in perfect stillness” for two minutes to pay its silent and reverent homage to our glorious dead.
The pause was fittingly respected in Newark, with all sincerity and simplicity. A few minutes before the eleventh hour — the historic anniversary of the stilling of the guns — a peal of bells called townspeople to the Parish Church.
A solemn bell sounded the memorable hour and a lull of silence not only fell on those who knelt in church, but spread with remarkable impressiveness throughout the whole town.
There was a large company present at the Assembly Room, Southwell, when Messrs J. H. Bradwell and Son offered for sale the historic inn, the Saracen’s Head, Southwell.
Bidding started at £3,000 and gradually rose to £3,850, at which price the property was bought by Mr Albert Ball, Nottingham.
Newark testified its appreciation of the valuable services rendered by the Special Constables during the war by entertaining them to a complimentary dinner at the Town Hall, nearly 200 attending.
Whilst dinner was being served, Mr F. S. Carle’s orchestra discoursed a delightful programme of music, and altogether a thoroughly enjoyable evening was spent.
Newark Town Council appointed trustees to Northgate House YMCA and YWCA. Alderman Knight explained that the rents of the houses, which amounted to £64 or £65 per year, was in the first instance to be devoted to the education of the children of desceased soldiers.
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