All our Yesterdays, April 7 (From Clacton and Frinton Gazette)

All our Yesterdays, April 7

11:34am Tuesday 7th April 2009

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20 YEARS AGO.

THE owner of a pet puma is to appeal against a decision banning her from keeping the wild cat at her Beaumont home.

If her effort fails, Lorraine Davy says she faces the heartbreaking prospect of having her five-month-old Zoukie put down.

“If I don’t win the appeal the only alternative would be a kind person in the Tendring area coming up with a piece of land where I could keep her - and that seems unlikely,” she said.

“Failing that she would have to be destroyed and that would break my heart.”

Tendring councillors met behind closed doors to discuss the application for the licence under the Dangerous Wild Animals Act. They were advised to keep their views secret in case any legal action - such as an appeal- followed.

But a spokesman later announced that the vote had gone against Lorraine and Zoukie.

50 YEARS AGO.

A SPECIAL train will leave Colchester North Station on Monday at 11.30 a.m. It will call at St. Botolphs, Thorp, branch off to Frinton and Walton and return via Thorpe to Clacton.

On board will be high officials of British Railways. local civic dignitaries and other prominent North-East-Essex personalities.

This V.I.P. tour will mark the inauguration of the newly electrified Colchester-Clacton-Walton line and an important step towards the eventual electrification of the rail service between London and the North-East Essex coast.

The 16-mile section from Colchester to the coast will be the first railway line in Britain to take electricity from the national grid.

60 YEARS AGO.

INCREASED police representation is being planned for Jaywick, where two police houses and offices are to be built if the County Council receives consent to borrow £7,100 for the purpose.

Details of the development are not settled, but one of the houses will be occupied by the Jaywick resident constable and the other probably by an officer from Clacton.

The Jaywick office will be administered from Clacton, and will not constitute a sub-station. PLans are only in the preliminary stage, and more police cover than immediately designed may be provided if financial and building resources permit.

The houses and office will, if consent is given for their erection, be on the Tudor Estate.

90 YEARS AGO.

A CASE of considerable interest to the farmers of the district was heard at Clacton Police Court on Monday, when Herbert Wilfred Daking, farmer of Thorpe, was summoned for permitting damage by rats to six stacks of wheat and further with wasting wheat between 1st October, 1918 and 12th February 1919.

Mr. Roland Oliver instructed by Mr. E. M. Leaning, appeared for the Ministry of Food Control and Mr. O. Thompson Smith, on behalf of the National Farmers’ Union, defended.

Palliser Dawson (formerly Grain Inspector for the district) gave evidence, that one of the stacks was the worst damaged he had ever seen. There were five others also considerably rat infested.

Frank Nevard, of Great Bentley, who drives a thrashing machine, said he thrashed the stack said to be the worst. There were about 20 rats killed, he believed, and there were no more than was to be expected.

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