All our Yesterdays, March 3 (From Clacton and Frinton Gazette)

All our Yesterdays, March 3

12:54pm Tuesday 3rd March 2009

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20 YEARS AGO.

WALTON Coastguards finally took control of their new £1 million station on Saturday - almost a year after the building was completed.

The men at one of the busiest stations in the country moved in most of their equipment last week but are still waiting on specialised computers.

The purpose-built headquarters on the sea front is the most up-to-date of the 21 stations in Britain.

Spokesman John Davies said it was not a worry that the computers were not yet installed.

“It will give us a chance to get settled and allow things to be phased in properly,” he said.

Included in the new building are an emergency planning room which can be used by all the emergency services in a joint operation, as well as an information and press office which doubles up as a training room.

50 YEARS AGO.

APPEALS were heard at Clacton Town Hall on Wednesday last week against the refusal of Clacton Council to allow caravans on the forecourt of Highfield Caravan Park, London-road.

The appeal of the proprietors of Highfield Caravan Park took two forms: First that a condition imposed by the Clacton Council in giving permission for the forecourt of the camp to be used as a bus terminus, coach and taxi-stand and as a car park only if it was not to be used for the stationing or parking of caravans, should be repealed. And secondly, that permission should be granted for the forecourt to be used as a sales ground for caravans between November 1 and June 1.The appealants had thought it advantageous to apply for permission to use the forecourt as a bus terminus, car-park, and a stand for coaches and taxis, although they had in fact been doing this before.

All that was now being asked was that during the off-season the forecourt should be used for the sale of caravans, as the demand for caravans is high.

60 YEARS AGO.

SIR Oswald Mosley, leader in pre-war days of the British Union of Fascists, is expected to attend a dinner organised by the East Essex Branch of the Union Movement, to be held in Colchester on March 31.

Invitations to the dinner, a private function, have already been sent out. It is understood that Sir Oswald will give an address.

A Clacton man in business at Colchester, whose signature appears on a letter giving notice of the dinner, denied this week that it constituted any attempt to revive the Fascist movement in Essex.

The local branch of the Union movement, he said, had been in existence for just over a year and consisted of “residents of East Essex who support Sir Oswald Mosley’s scheme for a united Europe.”

He told the East Essex Gazette: “In accordance with Sir Oswald’s political creed, Fascism is a thing of the past, with no relationship at all to post-war conditions. There is no thought of an attempt to revive it in Britain.”

-It was reported the following week that the dinner was cancelled following threats to the restaurant where it was due to take place.

90 YEARS AGO.

CHARGED with stealing nine knives, twelve forks, eight tablespoons and five dessert spoons, value 50., Jessie Foster, a married woman of Hilltop Cottages, Little Clacton, appeared on Monday at Clacton Petty Sessions, before Mr. J. H. Sizer and other Justices. Defendant, who appeared very ill was accommodated with a chair.

Evidence was given by P-c. Diblin that he received a complaint of the loss of certain knives, forks and spoons, from Mrs. Kate Hill, of Mayfield, Station Road, Clacton. On the same day, he called at defendant’s residence and found her in bed apparently ill.

He said he understood she had been employed by Mrs. Hill and asked if she could give him any information. Defendant said “I have nothing here belonging to Mrs. Hill,” and she agreed to his examining her cutlery.

On examination, witness found a toy teapot in the food cupboard and in the front room in a drawer discovered the articles mentioned in the charge.

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