What was making the news in the Newark Advertiser in 1924, 1974 and 1999
The Advertiser has opened its archives to see what was making the news this week 25, 50 and 100 years ago.
25 years ago - September 3, 1999
ABOVE: Children at Newark Family Centre marked the end of their summer playscheme by burying a millennium time capsule.
Parents watched as the capsule was buried in the centre’s garden on Gladstone Road. It contained items linked to activities they had done at the centre in the last four weeks.
* Calls have been made for better lighting and safety beside the Trent in Newark after a man suffered injuries to his face and head in an attempt to save a man from drowning.
Mr Tim Brady ran to the aid of a drunk Mansfield youth who fell into the water near the Castle Barge. He had mistook the towpath for a bus stop and fallen into the Trent.
Mr Brady said illumination of the towpath was so bad he did not see there was a drop of 8ft and smashed his head open when he fell.
The youth was pulled out of the river by others.
* Newark’s hopes of direct rail links to Europe could be doomed by Eurostar plans to lease trains to other operators while priority is given to developing the Channel Tunnel rail link to London.
GNER confirmed they are in talks with Eurostar over leasing trains - once earmarked for regional Eurostar use - to help ease congestion on the East Coast Main Line.
* Upton actress Lisa Rider is the new mystery woman in Britain’s favourite TV soap opera.
Lisa, who grew up in the village and now lives in the Newark area, plays the part of Kathleen, Ashley Peacock’s long-lost mum, in Coronation Street.
Lisa has become a key figure at the centre of the programme’s latest ratings-grabbing story.
* Pest control officers at Newark and Sherwood District Council have dealt with a record number of requests to remove wasps’ nests this summer.
Between April and the start of August, the department received 741 calls, compared with 381 over the same period last year - at the peak there were more than 50 calls a day.
50 years ago - September 7, 1974
ABOVE: There was a carnival atmosphere at Lord’s on Sunday, even though the Haig final between Collingham and Bomarsund was washed out by the rain.
The scenes and memories created still made it the greatest day in Collingham Cricket Club’s history.
Around 1,000 travelled down from Collingham and did not let the rain spoil the day they had dreamed of since the competition started three years ago.
* After a private showing of The Exorcist, members of Newark District Council’s environmental health committee decided by nine votes to one to allow the film to be shown in Newark.
Mrs Celia Steven, the only woman on the committee, said she thought it was a great pity that producers had nothing better to do than make films like this.
She said the film taught nothing and might do harm to certain people.
Mr Eric Willows said that although he did not enjoy the film, he supposed it was very clever technically.
Mr Sam Wiford said he had been bored and was astonished at the amount of publicity the film had been given. He agreed that some of the scenes were terrifying.
* For the first time in more than 20 years, a Liberal will be contesting the Newark parliamentary seat in the forthcoming General Election, giving voters a third choice.
He is Mr Glyn Jones, of Bathley, married with a small son and a noted grower of fuchsias.
Sitting Newark member Mr Ted Bishop (Labour) will defend his seat against Mr Jones and farmer Mr David Cargill (Con).
* Work has started on the first stage of removing Beaumond Cross to its temporary site in London Road Gardens.
County council workmen have been putting up scaffolding for the dismantling of the monument.
The work is expected to take several weeks.
* Work is under way on Southwell’s new Trebeck Hall, which incorporates the former Minster Song School.
The original Trebeck Hall has been acquired by Notts Education Committee as an annexe to the Lowe’s Wong primary school.
100 years ago - September 3, 1924
No small alarm was caused in Newark by a violent thunderstorm which broke over the town.
Vivid lightning was followed by cracking heavy thunder. Several electric lighting installations were fused and business places were plunged into darkness, while over 50 telephones were among the casualties.
A rumour gained currency that the spire of the Parish Church had been struck and a large number of inhabitants quickly assembled in the vicinity.
It was observed that the weather cock on the summit was slightly out of the perpendicular, while small pieces of masonry fell from the steeple.
The hazardous work of ascending the steeple of the church to examine the weather cock and the metal lightning conductors began yesterday.
* An increase of over 450 in the numbers of persons receiving unemployment pay in Newark this week is reported at the Labour Exchange.
Messrs Ransome and Marles have, it is stated, to come into line with other leading firms of the trade, notified an additional week’s summer holiday.
Under the new Act, only three ‘waiting’ days are now necessary to qualify for benefit, thus claimants became entitled to three days and in some cases four days’ unemployment pay in a second week holiday.
* A somewhat alarming accident happened in South Collingham on Wednesday, but was happily unattended by any serious consequence.
A motor bus was bearing a freight of passengers from Newark market when, in the centre of Collingham, the near-off wheel of the vehicle became detached.
The bus veered to the left and came to rest by the side of a long wall.
The passengers alighted and, after the wheel had been readjusted, they were able to proceed home, none the worse for the adventure.