Give priority to High Street (From Halstead Gazette)

Give priority to High Street

5:21pm Wednesday 27th August 2008

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ONE YEAR AGO

August 17, 2007

Halstead residents demanded the High Street was given priority, after traffic misery which could stretch into six months.

Anglian Water uncovered more problems – the latest a ten-metre stretch near Chapel Street which would take until mid-September to fix. Town and district councillor Jackie Pell said people wanted contractors off the road.

* One of the “most controversial developments in Halstead for a long time” would see 75 homes built on a former community hall site.

The main building of Halstead’s Priory Hall would remain, but its 1960s extension would be demolished, Braintree councillors decided this week.

The hall was built in 1909 as Halstead Girls’ Grammar School, extended in 1965 and later taken over by the Ramsey School, now Ramsey College, as a satellite site.

TEN YEARS AGO

August 14, 1998

A pilot reported a group of people, believed to be hare coursers, after seeing them from his plane as he was flying over Earls Colne Airfield. Halstead police investigated.

* The world’s biggest record company swooped to sign Sible Hedingham’s Bass brothers, Mark, Nathan and Kieron, still just in their teens.

Universal signed Next of Kin in a six-album deal worth a reported seven-figure salary.

50 YEARS AGO

August 15, 1958

Mr and Mrs Kentfield, of Burrows Road, Earls Colne, have a giant hollyhock. The longest of its six stems was almost 15ft high.

* There was widespread alarm over the possibility of sonic booms during an open day at Wethersfield airfield. A warning by the authorities aimed to allay fears but had the reverse effect, with worries that there would be a repetition of damage to property the previous year.

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