100 Years Ago December 5, 1903

The Christmas Fat Stock Show and sale at Shipston on Tuesday ranks as one of the best yet held. The quality throughout was of the highest order, especially the young steer class. The older bullock and the maiden heifer classes produced some fine beasts. The judges themselves spoke in highest praise of the show generally and were well pleased with the quality of the exhibits. They expressed great pleasure particularly in the show of pigs, and remarked it was the best they had seen at a local show.

75 Years Ago

December 1, 1928

There was a large gathering at the formal opening of the new hospital at Winchcombe on Thursday afternoon. For a long while past it had been realised that the accommodation at the old hospital in North-street was inadequate for the increasing needs, and when Cotswold House, on the outskirts of the quaint old town, came on to the market, the committee took the bull by the horns and purchased it for £5,000, and its adaptation as a hospital added another £1,300. The opening was performed by Lady Wemyss.

50 Years Ago

December 5 1953

At their meeting at Moreton-in-Marsh on Tuesday, the North Cotswold Rural District Council agreed to take proceedings in future against those who carry out building work on their property without first obtaining the council's approval. Mr. O. H. Sterry, chairman of the plans sub-committee, reported that the committee's notice had been called to instances of building work carried out in contravention of the Council's bye-laws; there had been no application for approval of the work, and the necessary plans had not been deposited with the Council.

25 Years Ago

December 7, 1978

The new 12-bed ward at Chipping Norton War Memorial Hospital was officially opened on Saturday by the Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire, Sir John Thomson, to commemorate the Queen's Silver Jubilee. An appeal for £25,000 was launched in March 1977 by the League of Friends of the Hospital and the money was raised in less than 18 months. At the opening ceremony, which was attended by representatives of all the organisations and groups in the town and district who had helped to raise the money, Mrs Ethel Jackson, chairman of the League of Friends, said the response to the appeal had been amazing,