From the archives - October 4, 2007

10:29am Monday 22nd October 2007

100 Years Ago October 5, 1907 PREACHING at the Unitarian Chapel in Evesham on Sunday morning the Rev G L Phelps alluded to a question that is of great importance to the country and is not receiving the attention it deserves. Mr Phelps deplores the fact that while a liking for reading has been fostered by free education, a cheap press and cheap magazines and novels, a taste for literature has not been cultivated. Consequently the class of writing which is read is not calculated to bring forth all that is best in the rising generation.

Mr Phelps thinks that much could be done to counteract this by the establishments of institutes for working men in which, although recreation would not be neglected, it would take a very secondary place to the means which would be afforded for mutual advancement and improvement.

75 Years Ago October 1, 1932 IN the furtherance of the cause of social welfare for the benefit of young people in Pershore a considerable step was taken on Tuesday evening at the National School, where in a disused portion of the premises, a boys' and girls' club was declared open. The club, which is to be known as Pershore Abbey Social Club, has funds totalling £18 after deducting all expenses incurred in the redecoration and improvement of the room which has been secured through the kindness of Worcestershire County Council. A sliding partition divides the room into two compartments, one of which is to be used as a billiard room, the club being fortunate in possessing three billiard tables. Dr R H Murray (Vicar of Pershore) is president of the club and Mr G Haines is the honorary secretary.

50 Years Ago October 4, 1957 Three hundred students have so far enrolled for this winter's technical and evening classes at Evesham, the head master, Mr J Major, disclosed this week. He said the classes in pottery were already full and those in dressmaking and woodwork nearly full but there were vacancies in most other subjects. Three foreign languages were now taught and a small but highly successful class was held to teach English to foreigners. Two new classes this year were in millinery and in geography and geology. "But," said Mr Major, "unless more members join these classes they will fail to become established. It is also much to be hoped that a greater number of apprentices to the building trades, together with any others interested, will take advantage of the class in building construction,"

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