Down Memory Lane

50 YEARS AGO

* At a District Licensing Court in Lanark, Roy Carnegie of Crown Hotel, Carluke, was granted a certificate to carry out alterations to his premises, including an extension of the reception hall, kitchen modernisation and added toilet facilities.

* The legacy of 500 left to Lanark's Old Parish Church by Miss Jessie Hume, The Priory, was to be spent on an electric heating system in the church.

* Scots racehorse owner and bookmaker Dan Flynn had given 1500 for a sponsored race at Hamilton Park on July 15. It would be a mile handicap for three-year-olds and upwards.

* Carluke Rovers signed inside or outside left Eddie Mooney, son of the former Airdrie and Newcastle left winger.

* The Rev John R Miller, BD, was elected Kirkton Church Minister in succession to the Rev Archibald Mills, MA, who had been transferred to Hawick.

* Despite a church protest, the Third District Council had decided to permit Sunday tennis from 7pm to 10pm at Carluke Welfare Courts that summer.

* Lanark Town Council had decided to purchase five replacement rowing boats for Lanark Loch at a cost of

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100 YEARS AGO

* In pleading guilty to having been drunk and incapable in Lanark High Street the previous night, a woman told Lanark Burgh Court that she had never once been "lifted" since moving to Lanark 29 years previously. She was admonished.

* The Colebrooke estate, which embraced about 30,000 acres of superior pastoral land and included Abington, Crawfordjohn, Elvanfoot and Crawford, was sold.

* Braidwood Celtic were top of the South Lanarkshire Juvenile League, having won 10 of their first 12 matches and drawn the other two.

* Mr J Mitchell Scott took over the dentistry business carried on by Mr Watson Rodger in Bannatyne Street, Lanark.

* Mr JK Barr was elected Carluke Tennis Club President at the club's latest meeting.

* Law Bowling Club AGM was to be held in the clubhouse from 7.30pm on Friday March 25.

* 'Christianity and Socialism' was the subject of an address by Sheriff Scott Moncrieff at a meeting of the Young Men's Christian Association the following day.

* A treat in Old Scotch Whiskies was available from McGhie's, The Cross, Carluke.