From Our Files: Scarce potatoes...priest sacked...paragliding plan...train home
75 YEARS AGO
AT Lymington Borough Bench on Thursday, a Milford woman was fined £20 for an offence against the Food Rationing (General Provisions) Order.
The prosecution stated the defendant’s daughter, went abroad on 3rd September 1946, and from that time onwards instead of her ration book being surrendered it was used to draw rations to the end of the validity of the book in July.
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POTATOES will be very scarce this weekend
A local distributor gives the reasons as a lull in the supplies coming from the Eastern counties (probably due to the weather), farmers being reluctant to open their clamps, and the need for conserving supplies for later in the season.
He adds: “It behoves the public to go steady this weekend to eke out the small supply in the shops.”
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A PROPOSAL that clubs permitted to use parts of the open waste of the New Forest for recreational purposes should be required to take out third-party insurance cover against the risk of injury to animals lawfully depasturing there, and possibly to commoners, was raised at Monday’s Court of Verderers.
Major C. Zeigler, the Commoners’ Defence Association vice-chairman, said the commoners were a little concerned at the possible dangers to animals from the golf, cricket, and football grounds. Recently there had been a case of a heifer being caught up in a drain on the Bramshaw golf course and aborting.
50 YEARS AGO
THE Rev. Michael Beevor, priest-in-charge of All Saints’, Mudeford, has been dismissed by his Vicar, Canon Leslie Yorke, with the backing of the Bishop of Winchester. Canon Yorke, Vicar of the mother church, Christchurch, said the dismissal had come about because of “a clash of personalities and attitudes within the parish – no more than that.”
One of the church officers said Mr Beevor had “conducted a campaign that has been seen rather as an attack on the church people of Mudeford”.
They continued: “I don’t think the people here are stick-in-the-mud and terribly conservative, but he didn’t seem to like elderly people.”
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HIGHCLIFFE members of the Planning Committee were not invited to participate in discussions between Christchurch Corporation and the owners of Highcliffe Castle over the possible development of part of the grounds.
The statement, issued jointly by Councillors A. R. Payne and I. Lennox, was prompted by a comment from Mr Walker, following the refusal of the Planning Committee to give permission for the residential development of just over two acres of the 14-acre site.
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DESPITE the additional moorings created by the new marinas at Lymington – 300 at the Berthon marina and 450 at Lymington Yacht Haven – there is still a long waiting list of applicants wishing to berth in the river. There are 180 local residents waiting for berths, plus 300 non-residents.
25 YEARS AGO
NEW FOREST District Council’s leisure services committee gave formal consent to the Wessex Paragliding Club to use the cliffs at Barton-on-Sea, at a meeting on Tuesday morning.
Members were told that the activity had been taking place from the cliffs for a number of years without the council’s consent, but that the club found it a good place to fly.
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FOR the past four years Lymington Baptists have been pursing the possibility of demolishing their deteriorating 164-year-old church in New Street, so that whenever sufficient funds become available, a new church might be erected on the same site.
But now, out of the blue, comes an announcement from the district council’s conservation officer Martin Poole stating the existing church has suddenly been designated a listed building, with all the restrictions such a status incurs.
