All our Yesterdays, January 27 (From Clacton and Frinton Gazette)

All our Yesterdays, January 27

11:41am Tuesday 27th January 2009

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20 YEARS AGO.

THE plight of Tendring’s growing community of hard-up homeless has sent demands for first-time accommodation rocketing.

Applications to convert buildings into bed-sits and flats is now reaching “unprecedented levels,” councillors have been told.

Last year alone there were 199 conversion applications submitted - six times more district-wide than in 1984.

And councillors heard that applications were now being received not only in areas immediately surrounding town centres, but in a growing number of other areas, including country districts.

The demand currently centres on Clacton
50 YEARS AGO.

AFTER forty years on steam trains, local engine drivers have gone back to school to learn how to handle the new electric trains. North-East Essex leads the country in the change-over in March from steam to electric trains. During the next few years the eyes of British Railways officials and railway enthusiasts will be tuned towards the line from Colchester to Clacton and Walton, and to the men who will pioneer the new service.

Last week six of the more senior engine drivers from Clacton were introduced to the new form of power. They spent the week at the Ilford car sheds under the instruction of Mr. J. Johnson, the London Rolling Stock Inspector.

“This week we show the men how to deal with any stoppages and how to isolate any faults in the circuit,” he said.”The braking system is something completely new, and a large portion of the course will consist of instruction in its application.”

60 YEARS AGO.

ESSEX County Councils plans to take over a Clacton seafront hotel as an old peoples hostel and a private dwelling house as a childrens nursery came under heavy fire at Wednesday’s meeting of Clacton Council.

With only two dissentients, the council agreed to send a “hands off our hotels” protest to the county authority, together with suggestions for alternative sites within the district.

The matter arose on the report of the Plans Committee, which revealed that the County Council proposed to purchase the Ramsey Hotel, Marine-parade, Clacton for use as a hostel for old people.

90 YEARS AGO.

AS a result of a letter from the Clerk to the Clacton Urban District Council calling attention to the growing practice in the district of employing young children to sell newspapers in the streets as late as 10 o’clock at night, including Sunday’s and asking the county authority to make a bye-law under the Employment of Children Act, 1903, dealing with the matter, the Essex Education Committee resolved to recommend that the Board of Education be urged to bring Clause 13 of the Education Act 1918, into operation as soon as possible.

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