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From the Archives - March 18, 2010
12:05pm Thursday 18th March 2010
100 Years Ago March 19, 1910 The annual meeting of the Chipping Norton Fire Brigade was held at the Fire Station on Saturday. The Mayor presided. The chief officer presented his annual report as follows:- “The brigade consists of four officers and 16 firemen. The fire appliances consist of one steam fire engine and fittings, one manual fire engine and fittings, one fire escape with canvas chute, one hose reel, one hose truck, hand pump, five scaling ladders, four stand pipes, two breeching pieces, nine branches, five leather buckets, six canvas buckets, 450 feet leather hose, 5,000 feet canvas hose, smoke respirator, life saving belt, one chemical emergency extinguisher, ropes and working accessories. The brigade had been summoned to four fires during the year, one being in the borough and three in the district.”
Meeting in hotel to discuss the king’s jubilee
12:05pm Thursday 18th March 2010
A public meeting was held at the Crown Hotel, Blockley, 75 years to hear ideas on how to celebrate the King’s Jubilee.
Villagers saved £40,000 by doing up their village hall themselves
12:04pm Thursday 18th March 2010
Swell Village Hall, modernised by the villagers themselves, was formally reopened 35 years ago by Colonel S B D Hood, of Upper Swell Farm, who said: “You have done a marvellous job.”
From our picture archive, March 18, 2010
11:56am Thursday 18th March 2010
BRISTLE the hedgehog and Holly the kitten teamed up at the Little Animal Rescue Centre at Blackminster following lucky escapes from the cold, 21 years ago.
From the Archives - March 11, 2010
10:08am Thursday 11th March 2010
100 Years Ago March 12, 1910 TO celebrate Colonel Bathurst’s recent victory in the division, a meat tea was held in the Swan Hotel Assembly Rooms, Moreton, on Friday in last week, when 200 sat down to a capital spread. The Unionists of Moreton and district had another cause for rejoicing in the fact that the previous day their nominee, Mr d’Este East had been successful in winning the county council election. The two gentlemen were escorted from the Railway Inn in a wagonette, headed by the Post Office Brass & Reed Band, and several hundred people to the Swan Hotel, where both thanked the people for their reception. During the evening an excellent programme of music was gone through.
Village benefactor was ‘indisposed’ on big day
10:08am Thursday 11th March 2010
There was a large gathering at the opening of the new Village Hall at Little Wolford 75 years ago.
Farmers warned that government tax plans would harm countryside
10:09am Thursday 11th March 2010
GOVERNMENT tax plans were causing controversy 30 years ago.
From our picture archive, March 11, 2010
10:04am Thursday 11th March 2010
AT the Old Silk Mill, Blockley, villager Martin Dee gave a record blow of 55-and-a-half seconds on a nine-inch Cotswold hunting horn, 30 years ago.
From our picture archive, March 4, 2010
10:21am Thursday 4th March 2010
100 Years Ago March 5, 1910 FOR many years the need of a Workmen’s Club has been sorely felt in Paxford, and what could be more fitting that the new hall, which was opened on Friday, should be associated with the name of the late Mr J C Reynolds? It was he, ever alert to do good for his fellows, who put the scheme on a substantial footing, but he died long before it was completed. Observing the crying need for a club room for the men, he set to work and soon had a scheme for providing it on foot. He died in 1906, but the work he had begun was gladly taken up by others, and is now complete. It is to be run on non-party and non-secretarian lines, and the management will be in the hands of the men themselves. The building, small but picturesque, stands practically in the centre of the village and generously given by the executors of the late Mr Reynolds.
Atomic dynamic combo’s ‘dazzling tornado’
10:21am Thursday 4th March 2010
work at Redesdale Hall, Moreton, to meet new safety regulations was well under way 35 years ago.
Journal reviewer said: ‘Female impersonation is a difficult art’
10:22am Thursday 4th March 2010
successful performances of the farce Are You a Mason? were given by Campden WI’s dramatic society 75 years ago.
From the Archives - March 4, 2010
10:26am Thursday 4th March 2010
successful performances of the farce Are You a Mason? were given by Campden WI’s dramatic society 75 years ago.
From our picture archive, February 25, 2010
10:16am Thursday 25th February 2010
THE sun shone on Penhurst, the National Children’s Home in Chipping Norton when the annual fete was opened by Mr Peter Purves of the BBC Television programme Blue Peter to the cheers of well over 1,000 visitors, 37 years ago.
Football team had their pockets picked while they played match
10:11am Thursday 25th February 2010
Broadwell Football Club 20 years ago called for urgent ground security measures after thieves ransacked their changing rooms during a league match.
Ambitious plans for hospital were expected to cost £5,000
10:09am Thursday 25th February 2010
“MORE than ordinary interest resulted from the 62nd annual meeting of the governors and subscribers of Moreton Cottage Hospital in the Sands-Cox boardroom at the hospital,” the Journal reported 75 years ago.
From the Archives - February 25, 2010
10:08am Thursday 25th February 2010
100 Years Ago February 26, 1910 The oldest inhabitant of Chipping Campden can scarcely remember such a week of wind and rain as that experienced last week, culminating on Saturday and Sunday night in a perfect hurricane. On Sunday, just after midday, part of the ivy in front of Mr G R New’s residence, which is known as the “Ivy House,” was blown down, and during the day several houses in Watery Lane were flooded, and a child named Jack Harris, whose parents live in Littleworth, had a narrow escape from being drowned. The mother, who with assistance, was trying to keep the water from the house, had left the little lad lying on the sofa, but he toddled to the door and either fell or was blown into the water before he was seen and there was considerable danger of him being carried to an open culvert, when he must have been lost. During Sunday night one of the pinnacles on the church tower was blown down, but fortunately did little or no further damage.
From our picture archive, February 18, 2010
9:54am Thursday 18th February 2010
Four workers escaped without injury when an explosion blew a wall and roof off the Cotek paper factory in Draycott, near Moreton-in-Marsh, 22 years ago.
Fat beasts, barren heifers and lots of tegs made for a successful show
9:51am Thursday 18th February 2010
With the total entry at near record levels, Andoversford annual special stock show and sale 75 years ago was one of the most successful in the long history of the event.
Ban on stubble burning sparked concerns
9:50am Thursday 18th February 2010
Worried Cotswold farmers said 20 years ago that a ban on straw and stubble burning could put them out of cereal growing.
From the Archives - February 18, 2010
9:49am Thursday 18th February 2010
100 years Ago February 19, 1910 WE are not surprised that the people of Winchcombe view with disfavour the suggestion that the annual flower show should be held at Toddington. These annual gatherings are looked upon to do some good to the local tradesmen who are asked to subscribe to the funds on that understanding. There could be no possible benefit if the venue were moved to Toddington Park, and therefore we are glad that the idea was not entertained. The holding of the agricultural show near Winchcombe Station, a mile out of town, has militated against the tradesmen of the town, but there was more reason for that than for taking the flower show to Toddington. We regret to see that there was a loss on last year’s flower show and hope that the deficit will be wiped out this year.
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