From the archives - August 16, 2007

12:49pm Wednesday 22nd August 2007

100 Years Ago August 17, 1907 The burgesses of Evesham generally will be very glad to know on the authority of the chairman of the Sanitary Committee that although it has been found necessary to turn off the water at night and during certain hours of the day, there is no danger of a water famine in the town. The council has completed negotiations for a temporary increase in the springs. This will tide the town over its present difficulties, and before next summer the new reservoir will be so far advanced as to hold 2,000,000 gallons of the surplus water ready for the next dry season. It is remarkable that there should be any alarm of the shortness of the water supply in an abnormally wet summer, but it is a fact often lost sight of that very little of the rain which falls at this time of year finds its way into the deep springs.

75 Years Ago August 13, 1932 Bredon people are trying to think of some other kinds of social functions in addition to whist drives and dances with which to brighten up the winter evenings. "Let us have our whist drives and dances, but will our bright spirits think of something else also for the hall besides these?" asks a writer in the Bredon Parish Magazine. "We cannot compete with dances in Cheltenham or produce the bands from the Ritz," he says. "We can all have jolly happy evenings together, especially if we use a little imagination and get up something that is not always whist drives and dances, where valuable time is lost while tables are cleared and the sawdust swept away."

50 Years Ago August 16,1957 During a storm of violence without parallel in the memory of the oldest people in the district, two-and-a-half inches of rain fell within an hour-and-a-half at Rushford, Salford Priors, on Monday morning. A reading was taken by Mr Ernest Bomford at Rushford at 9am. First rain of the day fell at 11.10am, when the storm broke. Iron Cross, Rushford and Salford appear to have received the heaviest measure of points in the Vale and surrounding district at intervals during the day. At Iron Cross, houses were flooded which never before had been invaded by water in the heaviest downpour. The Queen's Head Inn, built on three levels, was flooded to a depth of several inches in the new taproom. Customers were paddling through the room. The rain was accompanied by incessant lightning and thunder, but there were no reports of serious damage.

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