IN 1955, Paulerspury won the Buckingham Junior Charity Cup for the first time in the club's history, when they defeated near neighbours, Potterspury, on Ford Meadow, Buckingham.
The win was, in the end, a fully deserved one, for they began in a none too promising manner and found themselves two down after half-an-hour's play, but in the final stages gradually gained the ascendancy to win 5-2.
...KING George's Fund for Sailors has received £8 5s.11d. proceeds of a qualifying whist drive at Newton Longville.
...AT the monthly meeting of Ploughley Rural District Council, the Housing Committee reported that a total of 908 post-war houses had been built by the Council and a further 84 were under construction.
...SOME 600 hockey enthusiasts from Northants schools, plus 30 girls from Wolverton Further Education College, travelled to Wembley for the England v Wales hockey match.
100 Years Ago
- A preacher was sentenced to a month's imprisonment for causing a horse to be worked for thirty-seven hours. The animal was so weak when taken out of the shafts that it had to be carried to a stable, the court was told.
- WE are informed that arrangements have been made for the establishment of a brass band for Tingewick, to be called "The White Hart Band."
- Several of the members of the late band have again joined, and there is every reason to believe that the village will once again possess a very excellent brass band.
50 Years Ago
- BUCKINGHAM Police have recently received reports of the discovery of two unexploded bombs.
- The first, a grenade, was found lying in a hedgerow on the Thornborough-Thornton Road. The second, a mortar bomb, was found lying in the mud in a gateway of a field.
- In both cases Army Bomb Disposal units were summoned and the bombs were removed.
- BRITAIN is to spend £2,000,000 on the building of American rocket bases in this country.
- The USA will reimburse Britain with fruit. The first shipment - Californian prunes - has already arrived.
25 Years Ago
- OVER 500 people watched the first stage production ever presented by Magdalen College School, Brackley, in their 12th Century Chapel. The cast - mainly Magdalen pupils - totalled 60.
- FOR the second year running, Sun Valley Poultry Limited of Brackley have won a British Safety Council national award for achieving a lower accident incidence rate than the national average for their industry.
- ANOTHER £235 was raised by Brackley Methodists on Saturday towards the £4,000 cost of a car park for the Chapel in Hill Street.
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