ONE hundred years on since the formation, in 1886, Winslow Town Cricket Club played host to more than 200 past and present members from far and wide at the launch of their Centenary Celebrations in 1986.
Among the crowd of loyal supporters were five of the 1939 Brackley Hospital Cup winning side - Harold Kerrison, Ron Taylor, Bert Adkins, Harry Walker and Les Gibson - the first player ever to score a century on the Elmfields Gate ground.
Also in 1986:
- ...A DRAWING by writer Charlotte Bronte, and a dressing-table reputedly used by the Duke of Wellington, are among the fascinating mementoes up for auction at Biddlesden Park, near Brackley, in May.
- ...OVER 100 applications for participation in the 3rd annual Brackley Fun Run organised by the Brackley Round Table had been received and more were arriving each day.
- ...BRACKLEY'S £600,000 sports centre, still in the embryo stage, is likely to be built on land adjacent to the rugby ground in Pavillons Way, after a 99 year lease agreement with land owners, South Northants District Council.
100 YEARS AGO
- THROUGH the kindness of Sir Edmund Verney, the whole of the officers and inmates of the Buckingham Workhouse were again supplied with hot cross buns.
- WE record with deep regret the death of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman. The ex-Prime Minister passed away at 10 Downing Street, shortly after 9 o'clock on Wednesday morning. The King is among those who have sent messages of sympathy.
- NEWS is to hand that one of the seven fine old oaks in Salcey Forest was burned to the ground on Good Friday. It is surmised that some visitors to the Forest made a picnic fire in the hollow trunk, and the result was the complete destruction of the tree, which is said to be 800 years old.
25 YEARS AGOA STAGGERING £19,500 has been written off by Bucks County Council as a consequence of thefts reported from its schools over a six month period to March this year.
THE doors of Akeley Post Office closed for the last time on Friday morning - after 21 years of service to the village.
PATRIOTISM was alive and well in Winslow on Sunday as Cub Scouts, and Venture Scouts marched in the annual St George's Day parade down the High Street to the Parish Church.
50 YEARS AGO
- THE "A E Bryant" Cup awarded annually to the village in Buckingham Rural District which raises the largest sum of money per head of population, for the benefit of St Dunstan's, has this year been won by Water Stratford, runners-up last year.
- A LILLINGSTONE Lovell reader has written in to say that he heard the cuckoo on Sunday - the first day of official summer time - and two days later he saw a swallow. Perhaps we can expect a hot summer.
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