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Witham's Voice provides news about the town and council activies, and is produced quarterly by Witham Town Council.

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WITHAM'S VOICE COMPETITION

To all Witham Resident's who entered the Witham's Voice Did You Know Competition, Witham Town Council would like to say thank you for your interest.

We had a huge response, and as a few of you correctly answered all of the questions all the correct entries were put into a hat and the lucky winner was ………. Donna Vivian.

Congratulations Donna, we hope you enjoy spending your voucher at Ria Peking and Malaysian Cuisine Restaurant.

The questions and answers were as follows:

1. The library has had many uses, it was built as a private home, has been used as an army billet and a college but what was it before becoming the library? A cinema - The Whitehall

2. Two branch lines joined the main railway line at Witham; one still exists, to Braintree, where did the other one go? Maldon

3. What building now stands on the site of the former cattle market? The Labour Hall

4. Which factory occupied the site of today's Morrison's supermarket? Crittalls Window Factory

5. The building between the Swan and the river was built as a garage, but what was made there from the 1950s to 1980s? Cars - Ginetta Sport Cars

6. Who was wrongly hanged for fire raising in 1829? James Cooke

7. In which year was the Public Hall built? 1894

8. What object was displayed at the Albert pub resulting in many people calling the pub “the Black Boy”? A ship's figurehead of an African chief

9. The river Brain, the ever present along River Walk, is known by another name upstream. What is it called above Braintree? Pods Brook

10. The oak tree at the junction of Collingwood Road and Guithavon Valley was planted in which year and to commemorate what? Planted in 1887 to mark Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee