From the archive
50 YEARS AGO Churchgate slabs damaged by trucks
SHOPPERS were puzzled as why workmen had been ripping up paving slabs in Churchgate, Loughborough and replacing them with tarmac.
But deputy borough surveyor, John Todd told the Echo: “The slabs have been continually damaged by heavy vehicles which have driven on them to unload.”
Shock when tried to book group
EL CID the head disc jockey at The Hurst discotheque, Quorn, was trying to book a group at the venue recently when he cam across the name The Volume Four in his notebook.
He was a group agent and had often booked the foursome at the Hurst when it had been a club a few years previously.
He thought he would contact them and offer about £15 to appear. He phoned their manager in West Bridgford and had the biggest shock of his life.
The group had changed their name to Sons and Lovers and were currently doing well in the charts with a record Happiness is Love and would now cost a little more than El Cid was prepared to pay for them.
‘Safety helmet saved my life’
A SEVENTEEN shilling safety helmet saved the life of 59-year-old Stephen Maywood of 13 Holt Drive, Loughborough.
Mr Maywood, who was a contract manger of William Moss and Sons in Bishop Meadow Road said he was lucky to be alive.
He had been working on site in Leicester and said: “I left my office and put on a safety helmet. I had only walked a little way when a sheet of plywood fell from 11 feet above. The corner hit me right on top of my helmet.
“If I hadn’t been wearing a safety helmet, i would either have not been here or would still have a nasty headache!”
Lot of time spent knitting dish cloths
MRS Ruth Ethel Smith of 81 Leicester Road, Shepshed, was celebrating her 94th birthday and said she never thought she would live to such a great age.
She told the Echo that these days she seemed to spend as lot of her time knitting dish cloths. She also enjoyed listening to the radio and sitting outside in the sun.
Mrs Smith’s father founded the hosiery firm of Whyte and Smith 100 years previously.
25 YEARS AGO Won a £28,000 Cadillac at Southfields
LOUGHBOROUGH car enthusiast Darren Millard couldn’t believe his luck after visiting the Custom and American Car Show at Southfields Park
Darren, along with thousands of others bought tickets in a draw for a spanking £28,000 white Cadillac and won the top prize.
He told the Echo: “A friend rang me up and said that I’d won. At first I thought I was being wound up, but he kept insisting, so I went back to Southfields to find out for myself.”
When they first planned Epinal Way
ANGER which had recently been expressed over delays to the Epinal Way extension plans brought back memories for an Echo reader.#
The man, who did not wish to be named, but who was close to 80 years-old, remembered a survey being carried out for a new road when he was aged just 17.
“We saw a man in a field surveying for the new road, which was, we were told, to be a dual carriageway at Hathern, skirting Gorse Covert, then going past Knightthorpe Hall and ending at One Ash in Quorn.”