Showing posts with label Newark. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Newark. Show all posts
Thursday, March 26, 2026

Two railway lines used to cross on the level at Retford station

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At Retford the line from Sheffield to Gainsborough and beyond used to cross the King's Cross main line to Scotland on the level. In 1965...
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Saturday, January 17, 2026

The Joy of Six 1462

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"America has become a place where it is no longer entirely safe to speak freely. Where criticizing the Government can get you into trou...
Friday, June 13, 2025

A journey along the disused Market Harborough to Newark railway

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It was building the Great Northern and London & North Western Railway (GN&LNWJR) that brought my hero J.W. Logan MP to the Market Ha...
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Sunday, July 14, 2024

GUEST POST The future’s bright, the future’s orange

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Stuart Whomsley on how voting Liberal Democrat last Thursday has changed his life. I voted Liberal Democrats, for the first time, for three...
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Saturday, December 23, 2023

Police arrest woman after finding her hiding under giant teddy bear in Boughton

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Embed from Getty Images Our Headline of the Day Award goes to Nottinghamshire Live for this tale of crime fighting in the East Midlands. Th...
Wednesday, October 06, 2021

Bingham Toot Hill School students sanctioned after tampering with dead pigeon

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A pigeon yesterday. Thanks to a nomination from a Liberal England reader, the Newark Advertiser wins our Headline of the Day Award.
Tuesday, January 12, 2021

A 1960 film made to promote commercial traffic on the waterways

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The blurb on YouTube explains: This is an edited version of a film made in 1960 to show how British Waterways were upgrading their  broad wa...
Tuesday, April 03, 2018

John O'Gaunt railway viaduct, Leicestershire

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John O'Gaunt was a station on the The Great Northern and London and North Western Joint Railway, which ran from Market Harborough th...
Friday, June 09, 2017

The flat railway crossing at Newark

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Just past Newark Castle station the line to Lincoln crosses the East Coast main line on the level. It's all controlled by signals, ...
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Tuesday, June 06, 2017

Newark Town Lock and the warehouses on the Trent

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Just stream of Newark Castle stands Newark Town Lock and some warehouses which have now been converted into flats. For more on the Tren...
Sunday, June 04, 2017

Plans for the restoration of Newark Castle

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Newark Castle stands beside the Trent, close to the centre of the town. Newark & Sherwood District Council is full of plans for i...
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Wednesday, May 28, 2014

How to help the Liberal Democrats in the Newark by-election

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#90734059 / gettyimages.com Polling day in  Newark is 5 June. If you want to travel there to help the Lib Dem candidate David Watt...
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