Down Memory Lane

Discover the stories that made the Gazette headlines, all those years ago.

50 YEARS AGO

* Thieves forced open a door to remove a safe containing about 10 and documents, from the booking office at Carluke railway station. The safe was later recovered, unopened, on an embankment at the end of the platform.

* A 33-year-old woman was hurled through the windscreen of a car which collided with a lorry near Braidwood. She and her husband were taken to Law Hospital with head injuries.

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* It emerged that Lanark Lanimer Day had run at a loss of over 100. Income was 1153:3:6, while expenditure was 1260:11:3.

* A householder in St Nicholas Road, Lanark, Mr James Barrie, picked a cauliflower from his garden which weighed five pounds and measured two feet seven and a half inches in circumference.

* Lanarkshire school children were drinking about 2,000,000 one third pint bottles of milk a month under the milk-in-schools scheme.

* Frank Somerville beat James Paterson 21-20 to win the club championship at Carluke Bowling Club.

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* Little fancied three-year-old Welsh Border, a 10/1 shot, won the Lanark Silver Bell.

100 YEARS AGO

* Crossford-based Constable Hendry left for Motherwell, to take up his duties as clerk to Inspector Gracie, Motherwell Police Office.

* There were 1085 entries at the 20th annual Carstairs Flower Show. John Sloan had 33 firsts and 11 seconds in the Cut Flowers, Pot Plants and Vegetables section.

* It was agreed to pay Mr Gracie, Lanark School Board Officer, 4 4s 0d, and his assistant 3 15s 0d, for the work involved in taking a census of the children of school age in the parish during the holidays.

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* Mr Charles Eason, who had a business in Carluke High Street, won a silver medal for shortbread in the Confectioners, Bakers and Allied Traders Exhibition at Agricultural Hall, Islington.

* A silver watch and gold chain, three gold rings and three valuable cabinets were stolen during a break-in at the Carluke High Street home of retired shoemaker James Campbell.

* In a race run by Lanark Model Yacht Club, in which there were seven competitors, Mr W Anderson's Corra Linn was first, the time being eight minutes 50 seconds.

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