Apple packing

11:17am Thursday 13th November 2008

A DEMONSTRATION of the grading and packing of apples under the National Mark Scheme was given in Evesham Central market 75 years ago by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.

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Fire drill was old-fashioned

11:17am Thursday 13th November 2008

THE Journal reported Evesham Fire Brigade had been testing the fire hydrants on Greenhill and had found that there was not sufficient pressure of water in the mains to give a serviceable jet 100 years ago.

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Sorrowful turn-out to honour the fallen

11:17am Thursday 13th November 2008

Remembrance Day took on an even more sorrowful appearance at Evesham 40 years ago when only a few braved the bad weather to commemorate the dead of two world wars.

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From the Archive - November 13, 2008

11:15am Thursday 13th November 2008

100 Years Ago November 14, 1908 Not very much interest was aroused by the annual mayoral elections which took place on Monday. The proceedings at Evesham, where Councillor Cox was re-elected, were commendably brief. We are sure that Alderman Morris was expressing the feelings of all the burgesses when he said he hoped the mayoress would soon be restored to health. At Evesham, there is no pleasant interlude such as at Stratford-on-Avon when after the formal election the company adjourn to the ante room where champagne and sandwiches are indulged in. At Evesham the loving cup is placed on the desk in full view of the members and there it remains empty. Why it is ever brought out at all on these occasions we can never imagine, unless it is to show it has not been “annexed” during the 12 months.

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Town mayor parachuted to safety from an aircraft

12:21pm Thursday 6th November 2008

TO a youngster in the 1930s, Mr Barnard said, the crossing of the River Avon at Hampton Ferry for the fare of a ha’penny return, was an experience out of this world.

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From the Archives - November 6, 2008

12:21pm Thursday 6th November 2008

100 Years Ago October 31, 1908 THE parish church at Aston Somerville was reopened for public worship on Saturday afternoon by the Bishop of Gloucester. We are glad to be able to state that the edifice has been carefully and thoroughly dealt with and that the present condition reflects great credit upon the architect (Mr C Ford Whitcombe). The total cost of the work was estimated at about £1,350. Most of this has been raised but there still remains about £200 to be provided. Acknowledgement should be made of the valuable help rendered in the collection of funds by Mr W Fitzherbert of Aston Somerville, who has taken great interest in the work of restoration, and who has been a generous contributor. The office for the reopening of a restored church customary in the diocese was used. The bishop was received at the entrance by the minister (the Rev S F Whitehead) and the churchwardens.

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Machinery firm is open to the public

10:56am Thursday 30th October 2008

AGRICULTURAL machinery firm Bomford and Evershed opened the doors of its Salford Priors base to the public for the first time 40 years ago.

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Meeting decides to put off show

10:56am Thursday 30th October 2008

AT the annual meeting of the Pershore and District Horticultural Society at the Angel Hotel 75 years ago, it was agreed that the annual flower show should be postponed indefinitely.

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Shire horse sale

10:57am Thursday 30th October 2008

THE Worcestershire Shire Horse Show and Sale took place at Droitwich 100 years ago.

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From the Archives - October, 30, 2008

10:50am Thursday 30th October 2008

100 Years Ago October 24, 1908 We are glad to find that the Evesham Board of Guardians were unanimous in their decision to give an increase of salary to the master and matron of the workhouse. Mr and Mrs Powell have been in the service of the board for three years and during that time there has been a marked improvement in the management of the establishment; complaints have diminished and petty quarrels among the officers which were unpleasantly frequent have ceased. When boards of guardians or any other bodies have good servants, it is greatly to their advantage to retain them if they can do so and we do not think the ratepayers will in the least object to the increase of salary. The salaries paid up to the present have been £60 and £40 respectively; for the future they will be £65 and £45 with an increase of £1 each year for the next five years.

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Prison for woman who woke officer

11:18am Friday 24th October 2008

A WOMAN described as being “of the unsettled fraternity” was in court for being drunk and disorderly 100 years ago.

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Methodists build snug little chapel

11:18am Friday 24th October 2008

THE Journal reported on “a charming, snug little building” appearing in Willersey 75 years ago, which represented “years of willing endeavour on the part of the faithful Methodists of the village”.

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Device promised end to ‘worst’ job

11:17am Friday 24th October 2008

THE finger-numbing, back-breaking work of sprout picking looked like it could soon be a thing of the past 40 years ago.

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From the Archive - October 23, 2008

11:17am Friday 24th October 2008

100 Years Ago October 17, 1908 The Great Western railway company has taken in hand the repair of the bridge which carries their line over the Avon near the common at Evesham. The bridge was built about 1872. It has now been found that owing to the heavy fast trains of the present day, the middle pier is sinking. It has been decided to remove this middle pier and to replace it with a brick and concrete pier with cut-water ends, the track being supported meanwhile on a timber construction. The work, which it is expected will not be finished for five or six months, is in the charge of Mr E W Adamson, for Messrs T B Cooper and Co of Bristol, the contractors. We presume the trains will stop dead at each end of the bridge while the work is in progress; and seeing that the bridge is only a short distance from the station the company might just as well stop the through expresses at the station platform to pick up and set down passengers. This would give Evesham people a quick service to and from Evesham.

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Cannabis found in councillor’s garden

11:52am Thursday 16th October 2008

THE Journal of 1933 reported the finding of “a rare plant, Indian hemp” growing in the Worcester Road garden of an Evesham town councillor.

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From the Archive - October 16, 2008

11:51am Thursday 16th October 2008

100 Years Ago October 10, 1908 The two front rooms on the ground floor of the Evesham Library buildings and the room at the back of that on the right of the entrance are to be devoted to library and reading room purposes and the lending library is to be conducted upon the open access system. Open access means that borrowers have access to the books on the shelves; they can reach them down and look them over and when they find one which they think will suit them they can have it entered by the librarian and then take it home and study it. It will be patent to everybody that this system possesses a good many advantages over closed access and the indicator system where all the borrower sees is the name of the book in the catalogue.

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Harvest festival was ‘cheapened’

11:52am Thursday 16th October 2008

All sorts of organisations were “cashing in” on harvest festivals with a result that only a few growers took produce to the church, the Rev Peter Braby, vicar of Badsey, said in his parish magazine 40 years ago.

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Mischievous boy caused an injury

11:53am Thursday 16th October 2008

“A common joke among the schoolboys of Evesham, possessing a mischievous disposition,” the Journal reported 100 years ago, “is for one lad to deposit himself on all fours immediately behind another and then for his companion to approach the intended victim, and with a vigorous push send him flying backwards over the human obstacle at the rear.”

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From the Archive - October 9, 2008

11:14am Friday 10th October 2008

100 Years Ago October 3, 1908 Evesham has come in for its share of the phenomenal weather which the country has been enjoying during the present week. Summer clothes have been donned again and winter seems at present a long way off, though it is only a week to the Mop Fair. The shade temperature on Wednesday and Thursday was 73 degrees in the screen; a thermometer hung in the sun on Thursday registered 116 degrees at one o’clock. Thursday was the first of October and by regulations, which are based on the calendar and not on the weather, the Worcestershire police that day cast aside their summer clothes and appeared in the full glory of their winter uniform, in spite of the fact that day was one of the hottest of the whole year.

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Countess tired by stag shooting trip

11:03am Friday 10th October 2008

HRH the Duc d’Orleans, who was accompanied by his mother, the Comtesse de Paris, and his third sister, the Duchesse de Guise, returned to Wood Norton 100 years ago.

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