30/05/08 - Rail crash was an exciting photo op
WHEN Andy Williams was about 10 years old, he used to photograph everything with his new box camera.
So in about 1952, when a steam locomotive hauling 50 wagons of iron ore derailed near the Dirty Duck, Woolsthorpe-by-Belvoir, when he lived nearby, it was a snapping opportunity not to be missed.
Mr Williams, who now lives at Sandon Close, Grantham, said: "It happened on a steep bend, near the wooden bridge.
"It's not something you see
every day, and to be able to
take photographs was
exciting."
Photos: 6754 K01/02/03
10 Years Ago
GRANTHAM Town FC appointed Uruguayan-born Danny Bergara as their new manager to succeed Gary Mills who had quit earlier in the month.
* Angry Grantham MP Quentin Davies described as a 'farce' a meeting at which Lincolnshire Health members voted to close the maternity unit at Grantham Hospital.
* Antrac, the company behind the huge investment in the town's football club, won a 109,000 contract to manage the South Kesteven Sports Stadium for the next 10 years.
* Pub chain Tom Cobleigh opted to call its new pub on Barrowby Road, Grantham, the Gravitate Inn, rejecting a Journal phone poll that said it should be called the Gravitation.
25 Years Ago
Leading Liberal, journalist, broadcaster, gourmet and dog food promoter Clement Freud was in town to support the election campaign of Alliance candidate Simon Titley.
* Only 30 of its 350 members turned out to a crisis meeting of Grantham Royal British Legion Club, in Castlegate, which had a 9,000 debt.
* Among items handed in to the police lost property office at their Stonebridge headquarters were a two-wheel trailer and a tin of paint.
* Two Shrewsbury schoolboys, who were planning an expedition to Greenland, 'camped' overnight in the cold store of Christian Salvesen, at Easton, to test their survival gear.
50 Years Ago
GRANTHAM Chamber of Trade suggested changing half-day closing to Wednesday from Thursday so as to keep farmers in town who would visit the Thursday cattle market.
* Sarah Honeybourne, 83, retired as sub-postmistress at Barkston post office after 22 years,
during which time she had never taken a
holiday.
* People queued to get into Belton House
on Whit Monday where there was also a huge garden fete in aid of the village church heating fund and cricket club pavilion.
* Cedric Fry, of Grantham, managing director of Grantham Steam Laundry, became president of the Institute of British Launderers.
100 Years Ago
AROUND 250 people attended the annual meeting of Grantham Avenue, the town's premier football club, held in the Guildhall.
* Around 30 members of Grantham Scientific Society, led by Wilfred Bond, visited Crowland Abbey, some of them making the whole journey by motor car.
* Hairdresser Job Foster moved from Vine Street to Westgate, where his new salon had all the latest equipment, including an electrical revolving hair-brush.
* Empire Day was observed for the first time in Hougham and Marston with a tea for schoolchildren who were then marched from their playground to the new flag pole for the unfurling of the Union flag.
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