From the Herald archive - £310k to cut road accidents and upset at council offices
15th April 1999
A MASSIVE £310,000 is being pumped into plans to slash road accidents at one of south Warwickshire’s most notorious blackspots, with a further £60,000 targeted at rural junctions across Stratford.
Bowshot crossroads, on the B4086 Wellesbourne to Compton Verney, has been the scene of 14 accidents over the last three years – and three people have died as a result.
News of the £310,000, specifically earmarked for a roundabout at Bowshot, was warmly welcomed by the Thackwell family, whose 19-year-old son Simon died when his car collided with a tractor.
This kind of danger is unfortunately not confined to Bowshot and so the government has also given Warwickshire County Council £841,000 to spend on local safety schemes throughout the county over next year.
STRATFORD'S district councillors could face a revolt by their own staff should they reject plans for a complete refurbishment of Elizabeth House in favour of a project which has been described as an “Elastoplast” option.
Officers had hoped the council’s strategy committee would improve the “cramped and unsuitable” conditions by voting in favour of a £6million refurbishment of Elizabeth House.
But members, on the casting vote of Cllr Susan Juned, rejected the project and instead opted for a minimum refit.
17th April 1964
STRATFORD magistrates have refused an application by Mr D E Thomas, the manager of Lipton’s supermarket in High Street, for a licence to sell beer, wines and spirits in a section of the shop.
Several local licensed retailers appeared to object at the three-hour hearing. Mr Thomas said he had applied for the licence purely because of demand from his delivery service customers. He admitted to Mr Escott Cox, representing the objectors, that he expected to serve about three or four dozen customers living out of the town with wines and spirits out of about 119 families to whom he made deliveries.
Mr T Fisher Field, for Lipton’s, said there was a need for this off-licence in Stratford, a busy agricultural and market town.
Lipton’s have a wide range of delivery service, covering a radius of about eight miles.
18th April 1924
THE annual meeting of Stratford Boat Club was held at the Union Club on Thursday of last week, when the president, the Rev FH Harrison said the present year marked an important occasion because it represented the jubilee of the club.
One of the happiest things his dear father started in Stratford was the boat club. It was fitting that the town should have a boat club, for it possessed one of the most beautiful reaches in England.
For 50 years the club had been in existence, and during that period it had never looked back, and many young men had exhibited their prowess on the classic stream.
