What was making the news in the Newark Advertiser in 1923, 1973 and 1998?
The Advertiser has opened its archives to look what was making the news this week 25, 50 and 100 years ago.
How much of it do you remember?
25 years ago — January 16, 1998
ABOVE: A garden where children will be encouraged to touch and smell the things around them will soon be complete as a result of a visit from an athletics star.
Linford Christie visited John Blow Primary School, Collingham, to present pupils with £1,000 towards the cost of the sensory garden they are creating.
Security is to be reviewed at a Newark nightclub after an incident that left 19 people needing hospital treatment.
They were suffering from the effects of a pepper stray that caused panic and distress among clubbers in Caesar’s Palace.
There were so many victims that the casualty department was forced to call in extra staff to cope.
Residents of Newark’s Hawtonville Estate can now feel safer after the official opening of a traffic-calming scheme designed to cut accidents by encouraging drivers to slow down.
Romance has failed to blossom for Blind Date contestant Spencer Stevenson.
Spencer was picked by Jennifer Aniston look-a-like Diana Stewart.
Millions watched as Spencer, 22, from Shelton, and his date gave Cilla the impression she may have to buy a hat.
But he said the show was filmed six months ago and, although he keeps in touch with Diana, there is no relationship.
Football fanatic Abigail Priestley has a passion for the game that has won a VIP trip to the World Cup finals in France for her family and herself.
Abigail, 8, from Sutton-on-Trent, has been named as the Vernons Pools Girl for the 1990s.
The company was looking to update its Vernons’ Girls from the 1950s.
50 years ago — January 20, 1973
ABOVE: Nearly 40 pupils at Hawtonville County Junior School, Newark, put the finishing touches to their entry for The Yorkshire Television Award Scheme competition, which they hope will win a prize of £250.
They entered a project about the River Trent and Yorkshire Television filmed them at work, photographing and sketching the river.
Newark Town Council will on Tuesday be asked to approve the choice of developer for the £2m-plus St Mark’s Lane facelift.
The firm recommended for the job is the London-based Arrowcroft Investments Ltd.
It is proposing 90,000sq ft of shopping space, including a department store, supermarket and several shops.
n Residents in Newark’s Northgate are objecting to a town council plan to provide a carpark for about 100 cars on land at the rear of Slaughterhouse Lane and Northgate.
A 54.8 acre plot of agricultural investment land at Sutton-on-Trent realised £18,000 — believed to be a local record — at a sale conducted by D. W. H. Gascoine at the Clinton Arms Hotel, Newark.
Other prices included a 1.7 acres residential building plot on Notting-ham Road, Southwell, with outline planning consent for five dwellings, which fetched £32,000.
A new variety of fuchsia has been registered internationally by a Bathley man, Mr Glyn Jones, and its name is a tribute to Britain’s best-known football supporters.
Mr Jones called his flowing shrub Spion Kop because he was an avid Liverpool fan as a youngster.
100 years ago — January 17, 1923
The sugar beet factory at Kelham, which was built in 1921, is to re-open.
A number of machinists and fitters have started preparations for work and it is understood that the capacity of the factory will be considerably increased.
It will employ 350 men, which is equivalent to over half the unemployed at present in Newark.
The splendid work which the NSPCC is doing locally was reviewed at the annual meeting of the Newark branch.
During the year it has inquired into 85 complaints, of which 80 were found to be true.
In many of the cases of neglect, it can be traced to the distress caused by unemployment.
A atmosphere of pre-war festivity was again emphasised at the annual ball of A Squadron (Newark) of the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry at the town hall.
The green and gold of the regimental uniforms mingled harmoniously with the brighter colours of the ladies’ frocks.
Reference to the extensive developments in the coalfields outside Newark was made a meeting of the employment committee.
The chairman explained there were 500 men unemployed in Newark and men would be needed at the new Ollerton colliery.
The difficulty was the cost of getting to and from work.
Saturday’s show of the Newark, Balderton and District Fur and Feather Society in the Drill Hall, Cherryholt Lane, was the first show in affiliation with the poultry club, and proved the most successful yet in the history of the organisation.
