29/08/08 - Were you a '70s pupil at Great Gonerby?
CAN you see yourself as a child of the '70s in this class picture from Great Gonerby Primary School?
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The photograph was sent in by Margaret Summers, of Great Gonerby, and it shows Mrs Pacey's class of 1978.
Pictured are from left, back – Emma Longrigg, Andrew Wright, Julie Stray, Michelle Kavanagh, Kathleen John, Mark Rippon and Karl Nickerson: middle - Michelle Porter, Paul Mills, Paul Gibson, Lesley Summerfield, Andrew Moore, Malcolm Fendley, Michael McKinley: front - Tracey Kent, Jenny Summers, Sarah Jackson, Mathew Warren, Nichola Perkins, Michael Bishop, Suzanne Howard and Cathy Priest. Photo: 7799K
Dream of a 'people's car' was quickly punctured
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THESE pictures are in essence a story of what might have been if a Grantham MP's dream of producing a 'people's car' had been successful.
In 1944 Dennis Kendall, managing director of BMARC and MP for Grantham, set up Grantham Productions Ltd with the aim of mass-producing two models of a motor car which he planned to be cheap enough for every family to buy.
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Unfortunately Mr Kendall was unable to get his project off the ground and only prototype vehicles were ever produced.
The company ended in liquidation in 1947.
The promotional photographs were taken outside the gatehouse at Denton, which at that time was a favourite backdrop for promoting all sorts of goods.
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10 Years Ago
HEALTH authority chiefs said the old Grantham Hospital building could be demolished because it would be too costly to upgrade.
* Children's summer holiday activities at The Meres leisure centre were disrupted when thieves took a 2,500 large inflatable bouncy castle.
* Victories in their opening two games of the season put Grantham Town FC at the top of the Dr Marten's League Premier Division.
* South Kesteven District Council planners gave the go-ahead to developers Valdean to include a large snooker hall in the plans to turn the former Co-op store on London Road into a Euro-style caf.
* First on the scene when the combine harvester Corby Glen farmer Tony Percival was driving burst into flames was his son Giles, a part-time fireman.
25 Years Ago
ESTHER Reynolds, of Easthorpe, was a member of a sky-diving team that made a charity drop on to a Barry Manilow concert at Blenheim Palace.
* Sixty men who sat in the Spread Eagle pub on Fletcher Street, Grantham, hoping for interviews for jobs building an airport in the Falkland Islands, were the victims of an elaborate hoax.
* Diminutive actor and singer Don Estelle, 'Lofty' in TV sit-com It Ain't 'alf Hot Mum, was in town to sign copies of his latest record and appear at the Granada.
* Lord Mayor of London Sir Anthony Jolliffe visited the firm of Welding Machines (Automated) on the Dysart Road Industrial Estate.
* Grantham singer and actor Douglas Gorin opened a charity fund-raising event at The Earlesfield Hotel on Dysart Road, organised by staff at the town's Tesco branch.
50 Years Ago
A STARTLED horse bolted from Edinburgh Road, Grantham, smashing its dray and toppling a lamppost at Pensions Corner at the end of New Beacon Road and galloped to Houghton Road before being caught.
* The band of the the Royal Lincolnshire Regiment, commanded by Lt R. T. Godber, son of Grantham MP Joe Godber, paraded through the town.
* Cats, kittens, rats and a teapot were seen floating through Kirkby Underwood following the worst rainstorm in 40 years.
* Trainspotters crowded on to Grantham Railway Station to watch the Talisman train speed through pulled for the first time by a 2,000hp diesel electric engine.
* Grantham Town drew 2-2 with Goole Town at London Road, in their first Midland League fixture of the season watched by a 1,861-strong crowd.
100 Years Ago
Hornsby's employees provided a meat tea for inmates of the Infirmary and Imbecile wards at Grantham Workhouse while the firm's Temperance Brass Band played.
* Baker Mr J. Johnson, of Swinegate, was awarded a certificate of honour for breadmaking at a competition in London which had more than 5,000 entries.
* A party of 60 Young Leaguers connected to the Wesleyan Church in town, accompanied by their president Tryner Lynn, held a picnic at the Harrowby Hall home of Mr and Mrs C. Newton.
* Mr Theo Rowle, a member of the town's fire brigade, used his "patent fire extinguisher" to put out a fire at Sharpley's drapers next to his shop.
* At a meeting in Croxton Kerrial it was agreed to "r-construct" the village football club with playing members to pay a subscription of one shilling (5p) for the season.
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