From the archives - September 27, 2007

10:27am Monday 22nd October 2007

100 Years Ago September 21, 1907 WE would direct the attention of the sanitary committee of Evesham Town Council to one or two matters which require attention.

We are informed that cart loads of most foul smelling manure have been conveyed down Bridge Street in the middle of the day and on one occasion a lady was made so ill by the vile stench that she had to be medically attended for some little time, and was indeed fortunate to escape an attack of blood poisoning. Another reform which the council should certainly carry out is in relation to the collection of house refuse. It is now the practice to carry this away in open carts with the result that filth and probably the seeds of disease are blown about the streets. Properly covered tip vans should be used for this purpose.

75 Years Ago September 24, 1932 THE dedication festival service for the parish church at Sedgeberrow was held on Friday evening of last week. The church was nicely decorated for the occasion. The Rector (Rev M R Davis) conducted the service, and the Rev Dr R H Murray preached.

He said that it was 601 years ago that Sedgeberrow Church was built, and although this might sound old, it was a short time in the life of the church. Times at present were very bad but looking back he found similar circumstances prevailing 100 years ago, but worse still 17 years before Sedgeberrow Church was built, in 1348, when 22 million people died in Europe and Eastern Asia, as a result of the Black Death Plague.

50 Years Ago September 27, 1957 SUNDAY is the closing day for Evesham's Almonry Museum's first season. Since it opened in April, visitors from all of the continents and most of the European countries as well as all parts of Britain have signed the visitor's book. "But there are quite a lot of people in Evesham and district who haven't found time to look at the Museum yet," Mr. Benjamin B Cox, secretary of the vale of Evesham Historical Society, said on Monday. Next year, the exhibitions will be considerably changed and there will be a number of special exhibitions including two of national as well as local interest.

The Victoria and Albert Museum is lending, from its priceless collection of English art, an exhibition of English porcelain and another of Victorian pottery.

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