From the Herald archive - pedestrianisation concerns in Stratford
1st April 1999
CLAIMS that Old Town in Stratford would not suffer from the Bridge Street pedestrian priority scheme met with angry jeers at Stratford District Council’s strategy committee meeting on Monday.
Worried residents, packed into the public gallery at Stratford District Council’s headquarters, remained unconvinced by assistant director of planning Simon Payne’s reassurances that no more than 20 to 25 lorries in 12 hours would drive through Old Town if the Bridge Street proposals were passed.
Both ward member Cllr Ron Cockings (Lib Dem) and campaigner David Roberts, of Loxley Road, told the committee they believed proposals to introduce a no right turn from Wood Street into High Street would mean one of two options.
“Lorries would either have to go down Chestnut Walk or go all the way down Waterside and up Sheep Street,” said Cllr Cockings.
EDUCATION chiefs at Warwickshire County Council will pull the plug on the troubled River House School, Henley, at the end of the year following the school’s failure to improve on a critical Ofsted report.
At a meeting of the education committee on Tuesday, members agreed to consult on the closure of River House with a view to shutting the doors of the school for boys with emotional and behaviour problems for the final time on 31st December. Members also agreed a new school site in the north of the county should be found to house the River House pupils with effect on 1st January 2000.
The decision follows a damning Ofsted report in 1997 which highlighted pupils’ “unsatisfactory” behaviour and attitudes to learning and the school’s inability to improve standards sufficiently.
3rd April 1964
EASTER was one of the dullest and coldest on record.
Average Stratford temperature over the four-day period from Friday to Monday was 40 degrees, six below average. Highest temperature recorded was 46 degrees on Good Friday, and during the night the temperature fell to the lowest minimum of 31 degrees, with seven degrees of ground frost.
The east and north-east winds kept temperatures down but failed to blow away the clouds. In the four days there was only five minutes’ sunshine recorded, on Good Friday. Despite the cold, traffic through the town was only slightly lighter than in previous years.
4th April 1924
The government is assisting the arrangements for bringing parties of school children from the provinces to see the wonderful Empire Exhibition at Wembley, which is to be opened by the King and Queen.
Children of 12 years and over will travel in groups of 20 in charge of a teacher, and special travelling facilities at cheap fares will be available.
The organisation in these parties will be in the hands of the local school authorities. At Wembley a large hostel is to be set up where sleeping accommodation and three meals per day will be provided at a charge of 5s for children and 6s for adults. The total outlay covering all travelling and hostel expenses need not be more than £1 or £2.
