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25 years ago
A POSTMAN’S first class service to his community was recognised in the East Lothian Courier on February 18, 2000.
A postman from Pencaitland was among 45 men and women to receive long service awards from the Royal Mail recently after working a combined total of 1,300 years!
William Jack, 57, Woodhall Road, Pencaitland, has worked at Haddington post office for 30 years, and his dedicated service was rewarded at a ceremony in an Edinburgh hotel recently when he was given a certificate marking his long service.
He also received an Edinburgh Crystal wine decanter and glasses made specially for the Post Office, which delighted his wife, Catherine.
“The crystal decanter is fantastic, especially as my wife is something of an Edinburgh Crystal fanatic,” he said.
“The only problem is that if I stay on long enough I will receive a crystal ships decanter. It would be nice for her if I kept going until I get that as well, but I don’t think I’ll be working that long!”
50 years ago
PROPOSALS to pedestrianise North Berwick High Street were highlighted in the East Lothian Courier on February 21, 1975.
North Berwick Town Council may try one last important experiment before ceasing to exist in May. And that is closing the High Street for a trial period to judge the effect of pedestrianisation.
The suggestion that the High Street should be made a traffic-free area from 10am until 4pm on Fridays and Saturdays was put forward by the Interim Community Council – and the council thinks it might be worth a try.
When the matter was discussed on Tuesday, Councillor J. R. Wishart thought the scheme a good one if there was a proper back access for High Street properties and adequate car parking facilities.
Provost John B. Macnair felt it was premature. He felt that if the High Street was temporarily closed, Kirk Ports and St Andrew Street might become race tracks and this would not be a good thing for the residents.
100 years ago
A FARM manager to the Earl of Balfour contravened the ‘Anthrax Order’, reported The Haddingtonshire Courier on February 20, 1925.
At a Justice of the Peace Court, held in the County Buildings, Haddington, on Monday, Mr Wm. Murray Price, farm manager to the Earl of Balfour, at Whittingehame Home Farm, was charged with having, on 3rd January, at Whittingehame Home Farm, without lawful authority, directed that the skin of the carcase of a bullock affected with anthrax should be cut, and thus caused an effusion of the animal’s blood, contrary to the Anthrax Order.
The fact that the accused had provided disinfectants was indicative that he had a suspicion that something was wrong. When one thought of the tremendous risk the shepherd took in cutting the animal, it made one shiver.
