The task of renovating Redgrave Post Office and Stores was continuing with terms being negotiated with suppliers, tenants and employees being given new contracts.
Elsewhere, Britain handed Hong Kong back to China and the 1996 Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, were held in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
Alan Shearer became the most expensive footballer in the world in a £15,000,000 transfer to Newcastle.
Dolly the sheep was cloned and , Howard Hughes was found guilty and jailed for life for the savage murder and sexual assault of Sophie Hook.
The Ulster Troubles’ continued, but with arrests made and the Stone of Scone, aka the Stone of Destiny, was returned to Scotland.
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This month saw some historic events as Britain kept our half of the bargain and handed Hong Kong back to China but there new owners were to curtail citizens’ rights in defiance of the deal.
The 1996 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, were held in Atlanta, Georgia, United States for a fortnight starting from July 19th.
Continuing in a sporting vein, Alan Shearer became the most expensive footballer in the world in a £15,000,000 transfer to Newcastle but this was then followed by even more excessive deals for what were to become Premiership footballers.
Significant in biological terms, Dolly the sheep (5 July 1996 – 14 February 2003) was a female Finn-Dorset sheep and the first mammal that was cloned from an adult somatic cell.
In a truly notorious case, Howard Hughes, 31, was found guilty and jailed for life for the savage murder and sexual assault of Sophie Hook in in Llandudno, North Wales, twelve months previously.
As ‘The Ulster Troubles’ continued, the Provisional Irish Republican Army unit was arrested in Operation AIRLINES plotting to disrupt the London electricity supply. To satisfy nationalists, the Stone of Scone, aka the Stone of Destiny, was returned to Scotland.
Following the historic changes to government in the country, South African President Nelson Mandela visited the UK and had a Royal welcome.
Back home, at Redgrave, Carole Button was promoted to the position of Deputy Manager and I was dealing with David Ingleson with regard to Redgrave flat tenancy parking issues and rent payments. I was renegotiating many supplier’s terms and was in touch with Nicola Nash of Mr Fothergills Seeds Ltd with regard to our Redgrave Account No 17894.