From Our Files: Heifers butchered...clifftop ankle rail...animal binbag ‘timebomb’

50 YEARS AGO

An advert from the A&T 50 years ago from Phyllida and Gay Nonsense of Lymington.

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RESIDENTIAL land at Fawcett’s Field, New Milton, is not to be permitted. This is the decision of the Secretary of State following the appeal by Messrs J. and J. E. Fawcett on the failure of the former Lymington Borough Council to give within the prescribed period notice of their decision on the application for development.

The Secretary of State says he agrees with the conclusion of the Inspector of the Environment Mr S. R. Mollinson who held a local inquiry into the appeal and subsequently recommended that it be dismissed.

The application was to develop 5.94 hectares of land at Fawcett’s Field with 81 units for residential occupation. The inspector said that was of the opinion that the “limited area of agricultural land between Christchurch Road and Gore Road within the site provides a wedge of open land that is of considerable value as a visual and physical break separating extensively built-up areas”.

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CATTLE depastured on the New Forest are being butchered, members of the New Forest Commoners Defence Association were told at their annual meeting.

A Forest keeper has already reported finding a dead heifer cut up and waiting to be carried off. And the Association were told by two commoners that they had both lost a heifer that week.

The Commoners Mr Leonard Mansbridge of Ashurst and Mr Arthur Harrison, of Bramshaw, said they would give a £25 reward on top of the original £25 reward for information leading to the culprits.

25 YEARS AGO

PROPOSALS for an ankle rail on the crumbling clifftop path at Milford have been rejected by the parish council,

The idea was one of a number put forward by NFDC to improve the seafront area but Gloria Grantham-Hill said she opposed it.

“I think it would be incredibly dangerous with elderly people tripping over it, and what about at night, what would illuminate it?”

Brian Giles said the rail height would be between ankle and knee so he did not think anyone would trip over it.

But Elizabeth Everard said “We have got so many elderly people with poor sight, you are asking for trouble.”

Mr Giles said he thought it might be better to put in prickly bushes instead.

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LORD Montagu of Beaulieu has returned from India where he took part in an exciting Rally of the Raj for veteran cars.

Driving his 1909 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost over 1,500 kilometres from Delhi to Bombay visiting maharajas and their palaces, he won several cups over the daily stages.

The Lord said: “This wasn’t a speed rally over very difficult terrain at times, often It was just a case of getting there.”

The longest distance he covered in one day was 470 kilometres and the Rolls-Royce behaved “impeccably”.

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A HEARTFELT appeal to find a solution to the problem of animals foraging through black bin bags and consuming the contents was made by a commoner who lost two cows from this last spring at a meeting of the Environment Services and Licensing Committee.

Peter Longhurst, of Balmer Lawn Road, Brockenhurst, pleaded to members of the NFDC for an answer to the problem saying: “How are we going to minimise the risk to animals? It is a real problem. I lost two cows from eating rubbish, bin liners and black plastic bags.

“Animals take the opportunity to eat from bin bags on the road awaiting collection. The issue is something that is going to crop up again and again and is a timebomb waiting to go off.”