Looking back to the Rasen Mail of 1960 ...

In the first edition of that year, Saturday, January 2, the front page looked back to 1959...

• Mr Marcus Kimball elected MP by record majority

• Caistor Grammar School, founded in the reign of Charles I, threatened with closure

• Bell playground opened at Market Rasen

• Two-day murder trial at Market Rasen

• Farmers worried by drought, but corn yields suffered less than expected

...and forward to 1960:

• Market Rasen town hall, built in 1854, to be pulled down and opened as a modern store

• Market Rasen Corn Exchange, also built in 1844 - 45, modernised and re-equipped

• Nettleton ironstone mine likely to be extended towards Caistor High Street

• Caistor RDC bungalow rents under review and may rise

• Brocklesby may lose its separate seat on Lindsey County Council.

Also in the January 2 edition:

Honour for W F V Harries

Mr W F V Harries of Market Rasen, who has been elected president of the Lincolnshire Rugby Football Union for the season 1960-61, is a member of the little band of rugger enthusiasts who have made an outstanding contribution to the game in the Rasen area in recent years.

He is a past president and life member of the Market Rasen and Louth Club and is honorary secretary of the Lincolnshire Schoolboys’ Rugby Union.

His elevation to presidential office sets the seal on work which he has been doing in the county in the last 10 years.

New road markings introduced in 1959 caught one man out as the edition of June 18 shows.

Crossed double line

First man to be proceeded against at Market Rasen on a charge of driving over a double white line was Malcolm Bosworth, a 20-year-old miner living at 160 Ecclesall Road, Sheffield, who, according to police evidence, passed eight cars between Kingerby Road fork and Walesby crossroads by crossing over to the wrong side of the white line.

The facts were admitted.

Bosworth was travelling at this time in the direction of Cleethorpes.

When questioned, Bosworth said he didn’t think there was a white line at this point.

A fine of £5 was imposed.

Picture:

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, this year’s Lincolnshire Show and the many country fairs and events across the county - and indeed the whole nation - have been cancelled, so there will be no prizes for perfect pedigrees this summer.

Back in 1960, Mrs Neil Heneage, of Hainton Hall, proved to be a prominent prizewinner at the South Wold Show.

As well as acting as hostess in holding the show in her beautiful park, Mrs Heneage was also a keen competitor.

In the Rasen Mail of June 18, she was pictured, as shown above, with one of her award winning Jersey cows.