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10 Years Ago
JOURNAL photographer Peter Dean retired after taking pictures for the newspaper since 1945, when he was 12 and accompanied his father.
* National Trust property Woolsthorpe Manor, Sir Isaac Newton's birthplace, created a website so people could find out if they were related to the 17th Century scientist.
* After years of playing at Knipton and then at Bingham, Grantham Hockey Club moved to The Meres leisure centre and played in the town for the first time in living memory.
* Grantham FC rounded off their pre-season matches with a 4-1 win over a young Coventry City side at the Meres.
* Colin Howlett, secretary of Grantham Billiards club, said the proposed opening of a snooker hall in the former Co-op premises on London Road, could close his club.

25 Years Ago
WORKMEN on the Isaac Newton Centre site pierced an 11,000-volt cable blacking out the centre of Grantham.
* Relatives of Lord Brownlow wrote to Prime Minister Maggie Thatcher asking her to ensure that Belton House was saved for the nation as two Americans bid against the National Trust to buy it.
* Police revealed that £20,000 of video recorders had been stolen in Grantham since January, a 500 per cent increase on 1982.
* Management at Coles Cranes on Dysart Road, Grantham, already working one week on and one off, remained tight-lipped about the future of the company hard hit by the recession.
* Workmen who removed a brass plate from the pulpit at the United Reformed Church, Castlegate, found a 1921 Journal behind it.

50 Years Ago
TWO Grantham men working in the underground channel of the Mowbeck between King's School and Empire Garage had a lucky escape after they were swamped by rainwater from a freak violent storm.
* Sixteen-year-old Maureen Cooper became the first in Bottesford to be awarded the Queen's Guide badge.
* Irnham was adjudged the best-kept village in Lincolnshire and became the first recipients of the Hermione Elwes Trophy.
* Eighty-four-year-old Jack Whetstone, of Houghton Road, Grantham, died just six weeks after he married his former housekeeper Elvina Sandall at St Anne's Church in Grantham.
* Grantham firemen struggled for more than six hours and had to use a tractor and ropes to rescue a 3½cwt calf which had become wedged down a well at Stainby.

100 Years Ago
SCHOOLBOYS Ellis Joynes and Harry Reeves, of Bridge End Road, were each fined 2s 6d (12½p) for pulling stones out of the road surface near their homes and throwing them at Mr Wilder's apple trees.
* Mr R. F. H. Needham's popular pony, Nellie, a regular at the Belvoir Hunt Boxing Day meets on St Peter's Hill green, and which had learned to unlatch doors, died aged 39.
* About 100 illegally ascended by a rope winch to the top of a new 100ft chimney in the Urban Electric Supply Company yard in East Street to "enjoy the view".
* Heavy rain kept people away from the annual decorated cycle parade, sports and flower show at London Road cricket ground, and it only raised £14 for hospital funds.
* Rapid progress was being made with the laying of water mains in Wilsford.