A look back at the Hinckley Times archive from November 2 2006
50 years ago this week November 4 1966
HINCKLEY was reported to have been chosen as the region’s “guinea pig” for the introduction of North Sea gas to the Midlands.
The area was to be one the first to receive the gas instead of Saharan gas currently being piped into homes.
This would mean a mammoth effort to re-engineer the supply pipes, plus appliances owned by residents in the town may have to be replaced as the gas had roughly twice the calorific value - meaning flames being produced might be twice the size they were previously.
Collections were reported in the paper for victims of the Aberfan disaster in Wales.
£15.15.0 was collected by Holy Trinity churchgoers.
A bridge drive by the Hinckley Ladies Conservatives Association raised £5 10s.
And a trio of Burbage girls, Lynn Robinson, 12, Claire Jennings, 12, and Helen Jennings, 10, were so moved by the tragedy they collected door to door with a plastic bucket, raising £14.
10 years ago this week November 2 2006
COLLEGE chiefs were considering building a cutting edge further education facility on the site of a former Hinckley hosiery factory.
North Warwickshire and Hinckley College had launched a multi-million modernisation project to replace both existing campuses in Hinckley and Nuneaton.
It was proposed to replace Nuneaton’s Hinckley Road site with a new build in the town centre and to replace the Hinckley site with new, state-of-the-art facilities.
Fans and well-wishers turned out in force to watch a team of football legends play for tragic Hinckley United midfielder Matt Gadsby.
Nearly 1,000 spectators saw a side of European Cup and FA Cup winners play against Matt’s village team in Newton Regis.
The star-studded line-up included Cyrille Regis, Gordon Cowans., Tony Morley and Micky Gynn.
Back-to-back wins saw Hinckley United exorcise all memories of their nightmare performance against Hyde United two weeks earlier as they moved second in the league.