From the archive - Studley man in court for urinating in neighbour’s car
6th May 1999
STRATFORD town councillors agreed in principle to spend more of their charity money on the £600,000 millennium project to upgrade the town’s library.
The council’s trustees committee has already earmarked £300,000 for stage 1 of the project which includes a new extension to house an IT room and a lift from the basement.
The committee has now unanimously agreed to support stages 2 and 3. Stage 2 will be to create a new exit and a book-in desk. Stage 3 will be to create a disabled access and to extend the rear of the building by ten metres to create space for book storage, the heritage and museum area, as well as meeting rooms for voluntary organisations.
A STUDLEY man looks set to end up in court a second time for repeatedly urinating in his neighbour’s car.
The 44-year-old was given a 12-month conditional discharge and ordered to pay £200 compensation by Stratford magistrates on Thursday for causing criminal damage to a Metro owned by his neighbour.
The neighbour told the Herald his insurance company was considering taking the man to court to recover the £500 insurance claim on the car which it regards as a write-off.
The strange habit started at the beginning of the year. Initially, the neighbour thought the mysterious wet patches in the car were caused by a leak. When they suspected that someone was urinating in it, he hid in in nearby bushes to try and catch whoever it was.
8th May 1964
NEW ideas for the bridging of the River Avon at Stratford on a line that would eliminate the need to divert the restored canal are recommended for the approval of the town council.
Because the Ministry of Transport’s former ideas for the new Clopton Bridge would have required a special Act of Parliament to authorise the diversion of both the river and the canal, the new suggestion for aligning the bridge and its approach roads in a more north westerly direction is likely to speed-up rather than delay its building.
This fresh conception has directed by the need to avoid delay and to produce a bridge plan that will fit in with the town’s proposed bypasses and takes account of the traffic difficulty at the junction of the Oxford and Banbury roads in replacing Clopton Bridge for town traffic.
9th May 1924
GIFTS to New Place Museum:
1923: December 12: Mouth of one of the iron cannon used at the Garrick Jubilee, 1769, removed from the entrance to Cannon Court, presented by Messrs Hayward and Ball, Waterside, Stratford-upon-Avon.
1923: September: A large collection of grave furniture from the 6th century Anglo-Saxon burial ground at Bidford. Presented by Messrs Flower and Sons, Ltd.
Loan to New Place Museum:
September: A further collection of Anglo- Saxon grave furniture from Bidford-on- Avon. Lent by the Bidford-on-Avon Co- Operative Society.
