From the archives
50 years ago... Big shock in election
LOUGHBOROUGH voters in the Leicestershire County Council elections handed out a big shock to Labour, as only one of its seven candidates was successful.
Mr Martin Gallagher, the Labour Party secretary and agent retained his seat in Beaumont Ward, however six others including three former mayors of Loughborough all lost theirs.
Queen’s Park sculpture
A SPECIAL open air exhibition of sculpture had been proposed to take place in Queen’s Park over the summer months.
The agreement was subject to the Loughborough Town Council giving the green light to the idea put forward by Loughborough Council for the arts.
It’s a small world
“IT’S A SMALL world” is how the saying goes, and in Shepshed 50 years ago it was proven to be true.
Ten years on since the licensee of the Jolly Farmers in Iveshead Road, Mr Gerald O’Malley had came back from working in East Africa as a locust control officer - not the most common of jobs - he got into conversation with one of his customers and it turned out that he too had done exactly the same job. Not just that, but in exactly the same place just a few years apart.
Now they just so happened to end up having a conversation in a pub on the other side of the world.
Have you ever had a “it’s a small world” moment? Maybe something similar to Mr O’Malley?
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Phantom oil tipper
A PHANTOM oil tipper in Shepshed had been getting rid of large quantities of thick black lubricant down the drain causing trouble at the near-by sewage works.
Public health inspector and Urban Council surveyor Mr R.B. Jones gave a stern word of warning to the mystery culprit, and said that it was a “pain in the neck.”
The lubricant had been travelling along the drains and blocking filters at the sewage works in Hathern Road.
25 years ago... Butcher retires
A WELL KNOWN Loughborough butcher who had been trading for 40 years was set to retire and hang up his cleaver for the last time.
Mr John Burdell established his pork shop in Churchgate in 1950 and soon followed with shops in the Market Place in Loughborough, High Street in Barrow-uponSoar and Melton Mowbray.
Did you remember Mr Burdell? Maybe you used to shop in his butchers in Loughborough?
If you did please contact Liam Coleman on 01509 635806 or email liam.coleman@trinitymirror.com
Work on his microlight
A FISONS worker who had a unique way of avoiding the early morning traffic flew across the channel on his microlight- an extremely light aircraft much like a hang glider but with a small engine.
Andy Tyler, 22, of Hawthorne Road, Mountsorrel flew across the Channel in one hour 20 minutes and said that he often flew to work on his microlight, landing in fields not far away to beat the busy Loughborough roads.
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