i can remember taking a newspaper cutting into school with a photograph which was put on the notice board saying they plan to put traffic lights at the bridge,about 35 years later they did.

i visited the cemetry recentley as i found out my grandfather who i never knew was buried there.i think things are pretty much the same as you have described

this is newton cemetery lodge i lived here all my childhood my dad was the foreman of newton cemetery for over 30 yrs