100 years ago

WOUNDED soldiers continued their wartime heroics on home soil, assisting in tackling a fire near the Middlewich hospital where they were staying.

A group of soldiers rushed to a home in Sutton Lane when they heard the alarm, taking steps to prevent the fire from spreading.

The fire was located in the roof, and two soldiers – Private F Forrest of the Welsh Regiment and Air Mechanic R Hatch of the Royal Flying Corps – swiftly ‘got to the seat of the trouble’ and kept the blaze under control until the fire brigade arrived.

The pair were ‘highly commended’.

IN Castle, nine boys were fined one shilling each for playing football in the street.

The punishment was handed down at Northwich Petty Sessions, after the boys had been caught playing in Waterloo Road.

50 years ago

THE closure of Northwich Danebridge Primary School ‘at the end of the Christmas term’ was announced, with its 175 pupils to be transferred to the county’s newest primary school at Leftwich.

Danebridge head Mr Henry Turton was set to transfer over to take up the same role at Leftwich Primary.

25 years ago

NORTHWICH Crime Prevention Panel prepared to back Cheshire Police’s ‘crime-free day’.

The force announced plans to swamp the county with uniformed officers to prove that more bobbies on the beat would cut crime.

The panel was also busy making a move to ban drinking in Northwich town centre.

Members lobbied Vale Royal Borough Council to introduce a new by-law, due to ‘rising concerns about yobs taking over the streets’ each weekend.

NORTHWICH Victoria were told to stump up £164,000 within 28 days to save the Drill Field stadium from repossession.

At the time – and at its closure in 2002 – the ground was thought to be the oldest in the world to have continuously hosted football.