From our Files: Waverley revamp...week-long basketball game...cat burglar
75 YEARS AGO
“ANYTHING from a pot of chutney to a chicken will be welcome, nothing barred except tins of snoek!”
The above appeal for gifts to a produce stall at a sale for Overseas Missions appears in the Rector’s Notes of the current issue of Milton Parish Magazine.
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EVERYBODY knows that many council house tenants would prefer to own their own homes but, not being allowed to build, they have no option to become a council tenant.
This point is emphasised in the report of the NFDC who have agreed to set aside a house for a doctor at Fawley, one for the headmaster of Hardley Senior School and another for the head postmaster at Lyndhurst.
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ONE of the brightest spots in New Milton is the Waverley Cinema where a complete interior redecoration scheme has been carried out.
Although the lighting and one or two other items remain to be done, the brilliant colour scheme of the painting has made a big difference to the interior of the building.
The foyer has been domed and fluorescent lighting has been installed. An added attraction is to be a tank of tropical fish which is to be put over the pay desk.
50 YEARS AGO
SOME 24 students at Brockenhurst College started a marathon basketball match which could last for seven days.
They are out to beat the Guinness Book of Records marathon which at present stands at 144 hours.
The students will play two teams of five hour relays. The marathon is taking place in the college gym and money raised from it will go to the Christchurch autistic children’s home.
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THIEVES who raided McGavin’s chemist shop in Station Road New Milton ignored money, soft drugs and toiletries.
They only wanted the dangerous category four drugs, of which they took about £40 worth which have assessable value on the black market.
Entry was made via a side window but one rather unprofessional slip-up was that they left behind a Stanley screwdriver and a tartan shirt.
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“IT was my birthday and people wouldn’t stop buying me drinks,” a 19-year-old Lymington man told the town’s magistrates where he appeared for being drunk and disorderly in the high street.
He was fined £7.
25 YEARS AGO
AS the £5 million external restoration of Highcliffe Castle nears completion, the public are being offered the chance to buy original new stonework that could not be fitted into the jig-saw.
The spare stone, some of which was first worked in the mediaeval period and brought over to England from France in about 1830 has been acquired by Highcliffe Castle Charitable Trust.
A series of sales of the stone will be held and all proceeds will go towards the £50,000 Jesse window appeal. This is to pay for the conservation of the magnificent stained glass at the entrance to the castle in the north wall.
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A ‘CAT’ burglar is being sought by police in New Milton and Hordle following the ‘purrfect’ crimes at homes with cat flaps which have netted a lucrative haul of cash and credit cards.
He escaped by a whisker when disturbed at one property, using up one of his nine lives but at another escaped successfully with a haul from a home in Acacia Avenue.
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FOUL play has been called on Hordle Parish Council by a lady footballer who slipped and injured herself on a pile of dog poo in the village recreation.
The 28-year-old Hordle Ladies FC defender fell awkwardly, injuring a knee, and has filed a claim for £85 for loss of earnings and medical treatment.
This week the council erected notices warning owners who allow their pooches to foul the rec that they could be fined up to £1,000.