ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO — 1 DECEMBER 1893

ANDOVER COUNTY BENCH

Thomas P----, of Stockbridge, was summoned for a breach of the County Council bye-laws by using obscene language on the 18th.—Mr.Longman defended. P.C.Dymott said that on the day about 10.15 p.m., when on duty at the bottom of Winchester Hill he met defendant and two others, who were singing and shouting at the top of their voices. He advised defendant to go home quietly, when he began swearing and shouting still louder. Later on he again repeated the language in a loud tone of voice.—By Mr.Longman: When he first saw defendant he was about 50 yards from the Manor House. He addressed them quietly, and did not swear. He heard one of the defendants using bad language before he spoke to them.—Harry M----- said that on the night in question he was with P----, who was singing to himself as he went along. It was not true that anyone was shouting or swearing. When the officer came up he swore at them. They were then near the Manor House.—By Mr Lamb: Later on P---- said to the officer, “Come again you ----- and get my name.” He also heard him call the officer the name he alleged he had.—Mr.Longman put in letters of character, and the Bench said the bye-law might be made oppressive if the officers spoke roughly to men like defendant, and they should be careful not to do so.—A fine of 2s. 6d. and 11s. costs was imposed.

ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO — 29 NOVEMBER 1918

COL.FABER AND ALIEN EXCLUSION

Col. Walter Faber writes as follows to the “Morning Post”:—

“Sir.—May I make a last appeal before ceasing to belong to the House of Commons in favour of an Aliens Bill for this country. There was no place for it in the Prime Minister’s programme and although I am whole-heartedly in his favour may I beg Mr.Lloyd George to rectify his omission at once, otherwise this country will be very soon flooded with ten of thousands of Germans and other aliens, to the immense detriment of our own wage-earning classes.—Yours, etc., WALTER FABER. House of Commons

Compiler’s note: Walter Vavasour Faber, was the Conservative MP for the then Andover parliamentary constituency from 1906 to 1918.

SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO — 3 DECEMBER 1943

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FIFTY YEARS AGO — 29 NOVEMBER 1968

NOTICE

ANDOVER YOUTH CLUB

Young people from 14 to 21 years — What do you do on SUNDAY EVENINGS between 7 and 9.30 p.m.? Why not come to The Centre, Bridge Street? (next to the Bus Station). Spend an evening with people of your own age.

Facilities include: Table Tennis; Television; Records; Table Football; Refreshments; Bar Billiards.

There are OPPORTUNITIES to follow your own INTERESTS and HOBBIES. Model making; Photography; Film Making; Toy Repairing; Christmas Decoration Making; Painting and OTHERS you might like to suggest.

If you are 14 or over, pop in and see Mr.Smart.

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO — 3 DECEMBER 1993

INDISCRIMINATE FLU BUG SWEEPS DISTRICT

It’s not quite the plague, it isn’t even an epidemic — yet, but the dreaded ‘flu bug has certainly taken a hold in Andover.

Children are being kept home from school because of it, workers are missing from their offices, and nurses at the War Memorial Hospital have been in need of some [of] their own ‘tender, loving care’.

Even Test Valley’s most prominent citizen, the Mayor George King, was struck down by the dreaded virus, and was forced to miss the switching on of the town’s Christmas lights.

Staff at the council offices in Beech Hurst also suffered.

Nowhere is immune, including the newsroom of the Andover Advertiser, where illness resulted in the recent absence of the editor, chief photographer and a reporter.

TEN YEARS AGO — 28 NOVEMBER 2008

VISION FOR TOWN CENTRE

An exhibition on the vision for Andover town centre has been staged in the Upper Guildhall.

Test Valley Borough Council has identified the area around George Yard, Union Street and Black Swan Yard as the focus for its vision for the town centre in 10 years’ time.

If all goes to plan it will involve the demolition of the newly-refitted Rendezvous, designed to accommodate organisations ousted from the Lower Guildhall to make way for the Italian restaurant, Prezzo.

Council leader Ian Carr said: “The outline discussions I have been involved in to date suggest that the aim would be to encourage Union Street businesses to relocate to the new complex and this would, of course, include the Rendezvous.

“However, we are still at very early stages in our planning and need to have many more discussions with those involved and effected. With regard to the Rendezvous, costs and need would obviously have to be considered.”

The long-term plans include a link that would replace the one leading from Union Street to the High Street, traffic calming measures in Eastern Avenue and increased parking from 361 spaces to 400.

The development would also include a flagship store and a new public space with shops and restaurants beneath a residential area.