From Our Files: Rose hips... cricket injuries... Princess Diana... Tesco expansion
75 YEARS AGO
COLLECTION of rose-hips for rose-hip syrup is one of the most important sources of Vitamin C.
The season for this is very shortly beginning, and children, Women's Voluntary Services staffs and members of Women’s Institutes in Hampshire are being urged to make a special effort this year to improve upon last year’s collection.
In 1946, Great Britain collected 650 tons, of which Hampshire contributed eight tons. In such a good county for wild roses, a far greater quantity ought to be picked, suggested the Rev. Harold Mayall.
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WHEN viewing a house for sale on Thursday in last week, Miss C. I. Capron, of Longcliff, Milford, fell through a lantern light to the floor below, but very fortunately escaped with a number of abrasions.
Her brother-in-law motored her to Milford hospital and after receiving medical attention from Dr J. P. Salkield, she was able to return home.
At the time of the accident, Miss Capron, with her brother-in-law and sister, was looking over The Anchorage, West Road, Milford.
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TWO painful mishaps occurred in the cricket match between New Milton and Moordown on the Rec on Saturday.
In the first case, a visiting player was hit on the forehead by a fast ball from Keens and knocked out. After a few minutes rest, however, he recovered and resumed his innings.
While New Milton were batting, P. C. Hirst was struck over the heart with a fast ball and temporarily knocked out.
On getting up he walked to the pavilion to rest for a short time, but later pluckily resumed his innings, increasing his uncompleted score from 8 to 34.
50 YEARS AGO
FOR the second year running, students of Brockenhurst College have given up a week of their summer holiday to hold a camp for underprivileged children from London in the college grounds.
The camp was financed by the students, who raised £500 during a work weekend in March, and it is hoped that it will become an annual event.
It was held for 33 children, aged 8 to 14, selected by the social department for the Tower Hamlets district, and accompanied by a German social worker.
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“LIFE” is an organisation to save the unborn child and counteract advertisements for abortions, and a local branch has been started by a Highcliffe Roman Catholic priest. He is Father Norman Fisher, parish priest of the Church of the Holy Redeemer.
“The main work of the organisation,” he said, “is done by the person who answers the telephone to women who are thinking of having an abortion but don’t really want one and want to talk it over.”
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MAJOR Bill Tillman, DSo, MC (74), who sailed from Lymington for Greenland in early June, has been rescued after his boat Seabreeze was wrecked in ice off eastern Greenland.
He was picked up, together with his crew of four, by a Danish ship. The 49-foot Seabreeze, formerly a Bristol Pilot cutter, was built at Porthleven in 1899. Major Tillman used her in his search for unexplored mountains.
25 YEARS AGO
HELP the Aged has chosen a photo of Diana, Princess of Wales, meeting a Barton veteran soldier to appear in their nationwide window displays marking her death.
A snapshot of the Princess presenting 80-year-old Maurice Cheadle with an award will be given pride of place in all 343 of the charity’s shops up and down the country.
Mr Cheadle, of Fairfield Road, was presented with Help the Aged’s gold award almost two years ago for the creative contribution he had made in the setting up the Italy Star Association.
“Diana didn’t possess any of the usual royal airs and graces whatsoever,” said Mr Cheadle, recalling the time he met her at the London Hilton in Park Lane. “She was her natural self, just the same as everybody else. She was on our level at all times.”
Thousands of people throughout the New Forest have signed a book of remembrance in memory of Diana.
A constant stream of people have been pouring into the offices of New Forest District Council and Christchurch Council since the Princess’s tragic death to record their own messages of condolence.
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THE inclusion of a rifle range in a proposed pavilion forming a new recreation ground off Fernhill Lane, New Milton, came under fire at this week’s New Forest leisure services committee.
Criticism of the scheme came from Cllr Mrs Diana Baker, who said one of the largest areas of the pavilion was given over to a rifle range: “I do not approve of rifle ranges, especially if they are to do with children.
Why, agreed Cllr Dawson, was there a rifle range and not an indoor bowling green, for which they knew there was a need in New Milton.
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SUPERMARKET giant Tesco announced plans on Wednesday to almost double the size of its store at Caird Avenue, New Milton. Fifty new jobs would be created.
Planning approval is to be sought to increase the store’s sales area from 28,280sq ft to 49,500sq ft, providing wider aisles, extra checkouts and an improved café. An extension to the car park is also planned.
