From Our Files: Youth club opens... caravans clash... MP speaks out... waste lorries
75 YEARS AGO
READERS of the Advertiser & Times will join in the country-wide expressed congratulations to Her Royal Highness Princess Elizabeth and to the Duke of Edinburgh (formerly Lieut. Philip Mountbatten, RN, who was previously Prince Philip of Greece) and in wishing them every happiness.
Hampshire has a special interest in the Royal wedding, as part of the honeymoon is being spent at Broadlands, Romsey, the home of the Earl of Mountbatten and formerly of the late Lord Mount Temple, who as Colonel Wilfrid Ashley was at one time MP for the New Forest Division.
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SATURDAY was a happy day indeed for the members and officials of the New Milton Youth Club for, at long last after 18 months of striving and hard work, they were able to witness the opening of new spacious headquarters.
The Club procured two ex-Service huts and the boys themselves, together with a few adults, have re-erected and converted them into one building 60ft by 15ft
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THE Borough Council are to “register the strongest possible protest” with the Home Office at the latter’s refusal to sanction their scheme for the removal of civil defence works in the Borough. A comprehensive scheme was prepared for the removal of the whole of these works including brick air raid shelters, static water tanks etc, and submitted to the Home Office for consideration.
In their reply, the Home Office said that the majority of these works must be postponed in view of the state of the country at present, and that only semi-sunken shelters in children’s playing grounds, including school playgrounds, can be removed.
50 YEARS AGO
ACCESS to proposed “luxury caravan park land” at Vereley which runs over a car free zone proposed in the New Forest Conservation Study, would cause “tremendous impact” to the Forest, Mrs Lesley Errington, secretary of the New Forest Association, told the Court of Verderers at Lyndhurst on Monday.
Planning permission is being sought for 70 acres of private land at Vereley for “luxury caravan park land” with a country club, swimming pools, boating lakes, tennis and squash courts, and shops, with 40 acres of semi-permanent caravans.
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A CLAIM that Burley Rails Cottage, a former keeper’s cottage sold by the Forestry Commission, should have reverted to public ownership, was made at a sitting of the Court of Verderers at Lyndhurst on Monday. The claim was made by Mr Roger Wakeling who told the court that the property had been re-sold for £24,000, making “between £15,000 and £20,000 profit for somebody”. He said the property was going to be made into a “luxury dwelling”.
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WHILST agreeing to pedestrianisation of Station Road, New Milton, in theory, additional car parking should be provided first, New Milton Ratepayers have stipulated. They have objected to a pedestrianisation scheme for the whole of Station Road proposed by Hampshire County Council because of the re-routing of traffic through residential roads and because it would mean the building of two new bridges over the railway.
25 YEARS AGO
BEAULIEU and Boldre residents could soon be spared the disruption and annoyance caused by the huge Hampshire Waste Service lorries which regularly pass through their streets, county council leader Freddie Emery-Wallis stated at the annual Beaulieu estate dinner.
An average of six lorries travel from the county’s Marchwood depot to the Lymington tip at Efford and back daily.
The county leader explained this section of the Efford landfill site is to be closed early next year, albeit temporarily – and when it reopens the Marchwood lorries will not use Efford as the county seeks an alternative site.
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A PIECE of local maritime history may have been saved from drowning, after a campaign by a local MP put a stop to contractors carrying out potentially devastating work on a conservation site.
The original hovercraft testing tank in Hythe, due for demolition last week, has been given a stay of execution by New Forest District Council’s conservation department, after a campaign by New Forest East MP Julian Lewis, drew attention to the 150ft by 40ft tank, used in the 1960s and 1970s to test the performance of the hovercraft.
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ON Monday the MP for New Forest East told the Court of Verderers at Lyndhurst that Forest Enterprise was like an arms dealer when it came to camp shop sales: “Unless you totally ban missiles you never know if the other side is not cheating.” Julian Lewis wants the Verderers’ Court to ban all New Forest camp shops in support of local village stores.