From the Archives - March 6, 2008

10:58am Friday 7th March 2008

100 Years Ago March 7, 1908 SOME time ago we suggested the possibility of an Evesham Pageant and pointed out some of the main incidents in the town's history which would lend themselves to effective treatment. We are very pleased to see that the vicar, in the current number of the Evesham Parish Magazine, again brings this project forward. In May of next year it will be 1,200 years since the first church in Evesham was dedicated and in connection with the commemoration it is hoped to have a scenic representation of the chief events in the religious history of the town. The vicar suggests that it is possible that the town as a whole may wish to arrange a pageant. He very truly adds that there are few places which could furnish a more attractive series of incidents than Evesham.

75 years Ago March 11, 1933 THE Evesham and district schools held their third annual musical festival at the public hall on Wednesday and, like its predecessors, the event proved to be a treat to the audiences and a credit to all concerned in its organisation. This year, Dr Geoffrey Shaw, His Majesty's Chief Inspector of Music for the Board of Education, was the musical director. The massed choirs responded to his enthusiastic leadership in a manner that made the evening performance a thoroughly successful one. Mr S Moore (secretary for the Worcestershire Affiliated Societies) again attended and conducted the infants' percussion bands, who provided some of the most popular items of the evening. Schools from all over the town and district took part and the smooth running of the day's festival bore tribute to the painstaking way in which the organisers discharged their duties.

30 years Ago March 9, 1978 TWENTY-two dustmen who empty bins in the Vale of Evesham are being asked not to start work too early. It follows complaints at a meeting of parish council representatives and Wychavon district council officials that their early morning calls have been disturbing sleeping householders. "Everyone agreed that our dustmen do a rattling good job but there was just one complaint that they tend to start rather early and I undertook to do something about it," said Wychavon council's surveyor, Mr W Booy. "I have now sent a memo to the men asking if they would start at a more reasonable time," Mr G Dallimore, a refuse collector and vice-chairman of the manual workers consultative committee, said he usually started work at 5.45am, which enabled him to finish at 1.30pm. They have now been asked to start at 7am.

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