Sayings and doings of 25 years ago...
‘TENT slashing brought terror for children’ was the front page headline on the April 11, 1997 edition of the East Lothian Courier.
A fun night camping in the back garden turned to terror for three young friends last week, when a thug slashed at their tent with a knife – narrowly missing one of the children.
The unknown attacker slashed through the fly sheet of the small tent as Martin Runciman, 15, his cousin, Daniel McFarlane, and Paul Harvey, both aged 12, screamed with fright.
The mindless attack lasted for less than a minute, before the culprit escaped over the garden fence.
Later the youngsters found a knife nearby and handed it to police probing the incident, believing it may have been dropped by the man as he fled.
Martin, at whose home in Gardiner Crescent, Prestonpans, the attack occurred, has been left shaken by the incident.
...and 50 years ago
‘Increase in Ranco labour force is marvellous news’ said the East Lothian Courier on April 7, 1972.
The news that another 150 jobs are to be made available at Haddington by American-owned firm of Ranco Motors Ltd., was welcomed this week as a shot in the arm for the employment situation in the County as well as the town.
Provost A. F. Spowage of Haddington commented: “I think this is really marvellous news. We had heard some time ago in the Council that this would probably be coming off but we were not sure.
“This is really a vote of confidence in the company here. From the employment aspect at a time like this it could not be better. It will help the employment situation in the County and not only Haddington.”
The announcement that more workers would be taken on at Haddington – where Ranco Motors had premises at Hospital Road and the Dunbar Road – came close on the heels of the disclosure that the company’s Tannochside factory in Lanarkshire is to shut later this year.
...and 100 years ago
A NUMBER of housebreakings were reported in Dunbar, reported The Haddingtonshire Courier on April 7, 1922.
During the weekend, four cases of housebreaking, extending over three nights, were reported to the police.
Two private houses and a hotel in the east end of the town, and a smith’s shop at Broxburn were entered and various articles stolen.
No trace of any suspicious person could be found until on Monday morning it was discovered that a man had been living unobserved in an unaccompanied house, laying low during the day, and, it was suspected, sallying forth at night.
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