All our Yesterdays, January 20 (From Clacton and Frinton Gazette)

All our Yesterdays, January 20

10:32am Tuesday 20th January 2009

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20 YEARS AGO.

CLACTON may soon get a sex shop, massage parlour and escort agency. The three businesses will be set up in adjacent properties in Old Road if permission is granted.

The schemes are the idea of Dennis Howe who at present runs a take-away food shop in Old Road.

He says he thinks the services provided are just what the people of Clacton need.

“There are a lot of people out there who are divorced, separated, or widowed who want to go out for a meal or to a show. They have no one to go with, they are lonely.”

He says the agency would be able to provide escorts from 18 to 80 and does not anticipate any problems recruiting local staff.

The massage parlour would be staffed entirely by girls and again Mr Howe says he hopes to train local staff.

50 YEARS AGO.

THE whole of North-east Essex will be in the primary service area of the new I.T.A. transmitting station at Mendlesham, Suffolk; but for perfect TV reception experts say that the aerials may have to be moved or mollified.

Official designation of primary service area is: “where most viewers, unless they are situated in particularly unfavourable positions, should receive a consistently satisfactory service”.

Mr. F. W. Hyde, well know local electronics engineer, said that the signal should be stronger than that of the B.B.C. Though a number of television sets in the area are not fitted with the equipment necessary to receive a signal on this channel.

60 YEARS AGO.

ST OSYTH’S historic Priory and the adjoining estate of 330 acres has been acquired from Brig. Cen K.J Kincaid Smith, C.B., C.M.C., D.S.O., J.P., by the Essex District of the Loyal Order of Ancient Shepherds Friendly Society. It is understood that the purchase price was £30,000, and that the purchase price was £30,000, and that the negotiations were handled by Messrs. C. M. Stanford and Son, of Colchester, agents for the Priory for 30 years, and Capt. H. Titmarsh, J.P., of Clacton, who acted for the society’s trustees.

The ancient Priory has always afforded much interest to antiquarians and visitors, and has a history dating back to the earliest days of christianity in England. The Nunnery erected by St Osyth is believed to be the most ancient monastic establishment in the country.

Capt. Titmarsh told the “East Essex Gazette”: “We hope to create a memorial on the lines of the famous Edinburgh Castle memorial, which is the finest in the country. We also expect to restore the eleventh century chapel”.

90 YEARS AGO.

AT an occasional court at Clacton on Thursday morning, before Mr. E. J. Gilders, three privates of the Cheshire Regiment - Herbert Pennil, James Prince, and Albert Lee - all 18 years of age, were charged with stealing 32lbs. of coal, value 8d., the property of the Clacton Urban District Council, on the previous day.

It transpired that by reason of the complaint which had been received regarding the pilfering of coal at the railway station, P-c. Doe and P-c. Snell watched the place in plain clothes, and about 7p.m. on the previous evening they saw the prisoners go to a railway truck and abstract some coal.

They were stopped as they were leaving the yard, and the bag they were carrying was searched. Prisoners told them it was the first time they had taken any coal.

Prisoners were remanded to the Clacton Petty Sessions on February 3rd, being allowed bail in the sum of £5 each.

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