Bygones: A look at what was making the news in the Newark Advertiser in 1997, 1972 and 1922
The Advertiser has opened up its archives to look at what was making the news in times gone by.
It includes plans for Newark's first themed pub in 1997 and the delivery of a huge Easter egg 50 years ago.
And 100 years ago a speeding motorist was in trouble in court — for driving at 12mph.
25 years ago — April 4, 1997
ABOVE: Food technologist at Brossard UK Jane Raynor helps to create the winning cake designs of these two youngsters.
Charlotte Hawkins, of Bathley, dreamt up a rabbit’s face to win the over-12 section of the competition, organised by the Newark company
Sarah Bestwick, 8, a pupil at Hawtonville Junior School, won the under-12 category and is pictured putting the finishing touches to her castle design.
Plans have been submitted to convert four town centre shops into what is believed to be Newark’s first themed pub.
It includes three shops in Queen’s Head Court — a kitchenware shop and two shops that are currently unoccupied.
Nells Shoes, which looks out on to Kirkgate, would also be part of the conversion.
New council house tenants could be put on trial by Newark and Sherwood District Council.
It is looking at introducing a scheme of introductory tenancies to help in a campaign against anti-social behaviour.
Labour has officially adopted Mrs Fiona Jones as its candidate for the Newark and Retford constituency, and party officials hope the selection venue may prove to be a lucky omen.
Mrs Jones formally became the candidate after a meeting at the Lord Ted pub, which was named after the town’s last Labour MP, Mr Ted Bishop, who became Lord Bishopton.
About 100 pensioners attended an Easter Tea Dance, including an Easter bonnet competition, organised by Newark Lions Club, at the Robin Hood Hotel.
50 years ago — April 8, 1972
ABOVE: Members of the 1st Farndon Scout group are pictured tidying up the garden of Farndon vicarage ready for the new vicar, who will shortly be moving in.
The Scouts got to work on the garden as part of their job week efforts.
A windfall for Newark’s industrial planners is confirmed by the East Midlands Economic Planning Council. Newark could cash in on 20% government grants for new factories.
It could be a big boost for the 70-acre industrial estate planned off Northern Road.
More than half of the 844 wholly unemployed men in Newark are general labourers and it is becoming increasingly more difficult to find them work.
The manager of the Newark Employment Exchange, Mr Walter Parkin, says automation had cut down dramatically on the demand for this type of work.
The Barks family of Staunton Road, Newark, will remember 1972 as the year of the Easter egg.
The monster Easter egg that arrived at the Barks’ home on a lorry will certainly take some forgetting. It stood 2ft 4ins high, measured 38ins round the middle, and weighed 20lbs.
Daughter Alison, 17, won the chocolate egg in a national competition run by a bacon firm.
For years residents of Southwell have used a narrow footpath as a short cut from Westhorpe to The Holmes.
But on Wednesday county council workmen arrived with an excavator to put up three concrete posts blocking the way.
The workmen were met by a blockade of angry housewives but they completed the job, leaving the path out of bounds for anyone but the thinnest of residents.
100 years ago — April 5, 1922
The sod-cutting ceremony in connection with Newark’s sewage disposal scheme was performed by the Mayor, Ald E. Patrick, on the site of the proposed works at Crankley Point.
There was a number of unemployed men watching the proceedings and they much appreciated the statements that the council was providing all the work it could for them.
Describing himself as a music hall artist out of employment, George Graham, of no fixed abode, was charged with sleeping in the open with no visible means of subsistence.
He was found sleeping on a haystack in the yard of Mr J. C. Kew.
Graham was sent to prison for 14 days with hard labour.
The staff at Messrs Bainbridge and Co, Market Place, store has passed through a time of trouble.
Without a single threat or warning of its intention, a roll of linoleum, which had rested peacefully and innocently before the public gaze in the right-hand window, decided to change its place of resident and promptly fell through the window.
At the Borough Police Court, John Porter, aged 19, of Southwell, admitted driving a motor car to the danger of the public at Beaumond Cross, Newark.
Pc Judson said he was on duty near the Generous Briton when he saw the defendant driving from London Road.
He was going at such a speed as to cause his two offside wheels to leave the ground.
He was estimated to have accelerated and took the corner at 12mph. He was fined £1.
