Back to the Past 1974
Published Date:
25 July 2008
THIS picture, from 1974, shows more than 40 pupils of the Magdalen College School, Brackley, leaving the school on Sunday, July 28, to join a P&O educational cruise aboard the SS Uganda.
The cruise took them to Visby in Sweden and then on to Leningrad, Helsinki and to Copenhagen on the way back.
The ship left Tilbury Docks with more than 900 pupils from 35 schools in Northamptonshire aboard., with their accompanying staff and about 300 private cabins.
The 17,000 ton SS Uganda was specially equipped with 14 classrooms and an assembly hall to seat over 400 people.
Also in 1974:
...THE £11,000 voted by AVDC to bring Buckingham Town Hall up to fire safety standards may be nowhere enough to bring the old building up to a proper state of repair generally.
...WORK is well underway on the new £60,000 building project which will provide Brackley Bowls Club with three indoor as well as six outdoor bowling rinks.
...STOKE Bruerne, the picturesque village on the Grand Union Canal, is the home of the only canal museum in the country.
100 YEARS AGO
THERE were over 100 applications for the position of Headmaster of the Royal Latin School, Buckingham, and these were carefully considered by a committee of the Governors, who reduced them to six.
"THE Masked Man" who has accepted a wager to push a perambulator round the world, visited Buckingham on Monday and gave our representative an interview.
SATURDAY was the annual Co-Operative Children's Festival in Stony Stratford, and it proved a very happy day. The procession of children with flags and banners looked very gay. Over 300 children were provided with a free tea.
50 YEARS AGO
IF the numbers of traders who are making enquiries is anything to judge by, Stony Stratford's popular Tuesday market will be needing more stalls shortly.
BY a unanimous decision, the Buckingham Town Cricket Club and Sports Club was formed at a meeting in the White Hart hotel, on Monday. The Cricket Club was bequeathed a sum of money which had enabled them to purchase the ground and equip it with a new pavilion.
OVER 80 Wolf Cubs and parents were present at the first ever camp fire festivities held for Cubs in the Buckingham and Winslow District in Councillor H Cornwall's meadow.
25 YEARS AGO
OVER 300 parents and pupils from the Allan Shaw Combined School, Steeple Claydon, enjoyed the school's end of term concert last week.
LLOYDS Bank have agreed to sponsor a bottle bank in Brackley - at an estimated cost of £900-£1,000. The facility will be provided as soon as possible in a corner of Budgen's Car Park.
BRONNLEY, the quality soap and toiletries manufacturers celebrated their 100th anniversary this year with a party at their Bridge Street factory for representatives of various Brackley organisations.
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Last Updated:
25 July 2008 10:32 AM
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