From the archive
50 YEARS AGO Newly-wed’s Opportunity Knocks audition
TWO hours after being married at Sileby Methodist Church a couple were auditioned in Nottingham for the television show Opportunity Knocks, still wearing their wedding clothes.
They were Cedric Hewitt and wife Marcia who were both singers.
After the ceremony they made a short appearance at the Barrow-upon-Soar reception, where they returned after the audition.
New store manager wins colour TV
AFTER just three months as manager of Loughborough’s New Day Furnishing Store, Market Place, Mr Gerald Harrison was the proud owner of a new colour television, presented by his company for managing the most efficient New Day store in Great Britain.
Mr Harrison and his wife Rosemary-Ann lived at 60 Birdhill Road, Woodhouse Eaves.
Glider’s Derby Road emergency landing
A GLIDER made an emergency landing on Loughborough’s Derby Road playing fields when it “ran out of air”.
Later the glider was towed back into the skies by a Tiger Moth which had flown from Husbands, Bosworth near Market Harborough, the glider’s base.
Morris firm says goodbye to Mr Pepper
MR G Pepper of 66A Albert Promenade, Loughborough, received a presentation from Herbert Morris Limited, on completion of 50 years’ service with the company.
Mr Pepper started with the company in March 1919 shortly after leaving school, and apart from a 10 week break in 1931 had been with Morris since, working in the foundry until 1968, when he transferred to the stores.
Money considered for Kegworth bypass
IT WAS reported that a grant was being considered for the construction of the part of the Kegworth bypass, providing the link between the A6 and the M1 interchange and route B5400 (Kegworth to Ashby).
25 YEARS AGO Meets up with pen pal after 41 years
A LOUGHBOROUGH woman was on the right lines when she visited her American penpal - for the first time in 41 years.
Patricia Quilter, of Sharpley Road, began writing to Loretta Clayton of Alabama, when she was a pupil at Limehurst High School in 1953, but the pair had never clapped eyes on each other.
“It was just like meeting an old friend,” said Mrs Quilter who made the journey to the Deep South with her husband, George.
“Loretta had been asking me to go over for years, so a couple of years ago I promised that I would go in 1994 and I stuck to that!”
Role on the Freddie Starr TV show
A STARSTRUCK Loughborough woman was brushing shoulders with top celebrities every week after landing a part in the Freddie Starr Show.
Former Echo personality girl Salena-jo Marshall, 22, who lived in Kenilworth Avenue was regularly appearing on the show, which was beamed into the homes of millions every Friday.
Her numerous roles included an old lady, a medieval wench and a sunbather who gave Freddie a good slap in the face.