What was making the news in the Newark Advertiser in 1924, 1974 and 1999

The Advertiser has once again opened its archives to see what was making the news this week 25, 50 and 100 years ago.

July 16, 1999

ABOVE: A cricket team of television soap opera actors and sports personalities took on pub landlords from the

Newark area on Sunday and raised a record amount for charity.

The match at Collingham Cricket Club attracted more than 2,000 spectators and raised more than £7,000 for Newark and District Hospice Aid.

The celebrity team was captained by Emmerdale actor Mr Chris Chittell and included former Emmerdale actor Frazer Hines, and actor Kevin Pallister, who is currently playing murderer Graham Clark in Emmerdale.

• Action has been promised to stop lorries toppling at a Newark roundabout, after the latest crash brought traffic chaos.

A lorry carrying frozen vegetables tipped over on the Brownhills roundabout blocking the A46 junction.

It was the latest in a series of similar incidents at the roundabout in the past two years. The problems are being blamed on an adverse camber, which affects lorries when they reach a certain speed.

• An action plan to improve Newark town centre is being drawn up by the local affairs committee of Newark Chamber of Commerce.

The list is likely to include matters such as market place repairs, sign-posting, pedestrianisation, bus stops and market stall clearance.

Members have agreed they need to lobby hard for council action.

• A school will buy new curtains for its hall 32 years after they were first put up, using money raised at a fair.

John Hunt Infants' School, Balderton, will use its share of the money from the fair organised jointly with its nursery and junior school, to replace the orange and brown curtains it has had since the Sixties.

50 years ago – July 20, 1974

Due to ongoing closure of Newark Library we are unable to produce the usual full 50 years ago section.

Here are some images from the Newark High School summer fair of that week.

100 years ago – July 16, 1924

The evening shadows fell, and the stream of nodding lanterns emptied itself into the Market-place.

There was a long trail of happy children proudly carrying aloft their coloured lamps, like mighty young torch bearers in a noble cause.

The scene was charming and picturesque. Here and there a candle had gone out, but the merry marchers continued – even if a little disappointed.

The roadsides were lined, here again children stood like sentinels with lanterns, and so the route was prettily illuminated.

Thus, the lantern procession was the piece de resistance of the Newark Church Sunday Schools festival, held in delightful weather on Thursday.

• Messrs Cafferata and Co Ltd held their annual outing on Friday when the venue was ‘breezy Blackpool’.

A special train of ten coaches was chartered to convey the men, their wives and families to the number of 475 to their destination.

• It is understood that the Poor Box in Upton Parish Church has been rifled and in spite of investigation the culprit has not yet been discovered.

This is the second occasion that pilfering of this nature has occurred in the church and it is regrettable that any person should stoop to do this unworthy act.

• Messrs H. Butcher and Co offered for sale in London the leasehold rights on the seams of coal over 5,600 acres in Kelham, Averham, Staythorpe and Rolleston.

• An outbreak of scarlet fever was reported at Newark Workhouse, and the Master also reported that an outbreak of chickenpox had occurred among the adult inmates.

This was at first thought to be smallpox but fortunately was identified as chickenpox.

All visiting has therefore been stopped.