Milestones w/c June 17, 2010
100 YEARS AGO June 11, 1910 NEW COLLIERY NEAR GOOLE
THERE is every prospect of a coal pit being sunk within eight miles of Goole, in a district served by three railways - Lancashire and Yorkshire, Hull and Barnsley, and Great Northern, and with the Goole and Knottingley Canal in close proximity. A private meeting of landowners, representative of 1,000 acres in the Snaith (near Goole) district, has been held at Snaith. It was stated that terms for boring for coal had been arrived at between the Landowners Committee and the Yorkshire Coal Boring Company, and had been embodied in a deed of arrangement, and there is every prospect of the venture being carried through.
75 YEARS AGO
June 15, 1935
JUBILEE MEDALS
THE King's Jubilee medal has been awarded to Mr W E Burrows, Clerk to Isle of Axholme Rural District Council. Mr Burrows has taken part in the social and recreative life of Epworth, was secretary of the old Agricultural Show, secretary to the Town Cricket Club and also a playing member. John Wm Halkon, Garthorpe farmer, chairman of Isle of Axholme RDC has also been presented with a King's Jubilee medal. Mr Halkon is a foundation manager of Garthorpe school, a Governor of Fockerby school, a member of River Trent Catchment Board, a member of Garthorpe and Adlingfleet Drainage Boards.
50 YEARS AGO
June 10, 1960
AMERICAN TOUR
SEVEN weeks, 13,200 miles and (such are the temptations of the flesh) many gourmet meals after leaving Epworth, the Rev. W Le Cato Edwards is back at the Old Rectory enriched by the experiences of a wonderful American tour taking part in a conference of the Yokefellow movement in Indiana. Mr Edwards has used the opportunity to speak both in public and in private contact of the need of funds for the Old Rectory, if it is to be developed appropriately as the shrine of world Methodism. He has also visited Epworth-by-the-Sea on the shores of St. Simon's Island. Mr Edward said: "It is a perfectly glorious spot with every modern convenience that you could think of. It is a wonderful conference centre, there are Methodist conferences there all the year round - and we should like to make Epworth as good as that."
25 YEARS AGO
June 14, 1985
SUMMER PROGRAMME
EALAND Victory Hall Committee will be busy this year with their summer programme which starts July 20, the Hall will be holding a cream tea, car boot sale and children's treasure hunt, there will also be a painting competition and craft display. A home produce show for vegetables, flowers, baking and jam making and anything home produced will take place later, as well as the long-awaited family entertainment and musical evening.
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Wednesday 08 February 2012
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