From the Archive - October 16, 2008

11:51am Thursday 16th October 2008

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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.

75 Years Ago October 14, 1933 The annual general meeting of the Pershore branch of the British legion was held at the Working Men’s and Old Comrades’ Club on wednesday evening, the President (Major W H Taylor) presiding. The annual report presented by Mr L G Langford, stated that during the year a remarkable increase had been made in the membership of the branch. In the first three months from the date of the last annual meeting, 24 new members were enrolled; 12 of them were nominated by Mr H Hick and the committee had much pleasure in co-opting him and he had been a valuable help. There were 160 members on the books at the present time. Activities during the year were recalled and the report went on to state that a matter which had caused the Committee some small anxiety was the question of finance.

40 years Ago October 10, 1968 Dog owners in the Vale of Evesham are being invited to send their pets to school to learn how to behave out-of-doors. Posters are being prepared by the Evesham and District Road Safety Committee drawing attention to a series of 10 weekly training sessions at which dogs will be trained to observe the rules of the road and their owners encouraged to see that they do. Adult and child dog owners, both in the borough and neighbouring districts, are being invited to take their animals along for instruction by Mr Alan Barnard, superintendent of the Canine Defence League kennels at Wickhamford. Mrs J Gabb, secretary of the road safety committee, said the classes were in the nature of an experiment. “Mr Barnard put the idea to us and we think it is an excellent one,” she said.