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11:41am Thursday 18th March 2010

THE Vale of Evesham “marathon” 100 years ago created a great deal of interest – even though it wasn’t quite 26 miles long.

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From the Archives - March 18, 2010

11:40am Thursday 18th March 2010

100 Years Ago March 19. 1910.

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From the Archives - March 11, 2010

11:46am Thursday 11th March 2010

100 years Ago March 12, 1910 HOW many of our readers saw the brilliant meteor which appeared on the evening of Monday, February 28? Mr E A B Barnard, our Notes and Queries editor, was one. He was standing on some elevated ground to the north of Evesham when at eight minutes to seven he saw a brilliant pearl-hued substance slowly falling from S.E. to N.W. across the sky. The substance, he says, seemed to be “about the size of a man’s fist,” and as it approached the earth it emitted a few lights of various colours. It fell in a field on the estate of the Duc d’Orleans, just in front of a large coppice, and about three quarters of a mile from where Mr Barnard was standing. For at least 45 seconds afterwards he could distinctly see a strong light rising from the spot where the substance fell.

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From the Archives - March 4, 2010

10:57am Thursday 4th March 2010

100 Years Ago March 5, 1910 AT their last meeting, the general purposes committee of the Evesham Town Council decided that during the summer months the Pleasure Grounds and Recreation Ground shall be closed every night at 10 o’clock. It will be quite simple to enforce this decision so far as it refers to the Pleasure Grounds, but the committee can only close the ground on the other side of the river by stopping a public footpath, and it is hardly conceivable that a body whose duty it is to carefully preserve all public rights of way can contemplate doing this. Years ago a footpath giving access to the river across the Crown Meadow was lost to the public without protest from anyone, and if the path through the Recreation Ground is now closed there will be no right of way on to the right bank of the Avon below Evesham Bridge except at Hampton Ferry.

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From the Archives - February 25, 2010

10:33am Thursday 25th February 2010

100 Years Ago February 26, 1910 From the first annual report, which was presented at the meeting on Tuesday, the Pershore Co-operative Fruit Market seems to have made a fairly satisfactory start. The sum realised at the sales has amounted to £4,721, and the commission earned to £366. The net profit for the period during which the market has been open (28 weeks), after allowances for depreciation and reserve for doubtful debts, was £5 2s 5d, which the committee recommended should be carried forward. The committee has secured a site in close proximity to Broad Street, where a covered market is in course of erection. Not so much use as expected has been made of the brand tallies issued to members, but this is no doubt a matter that will right itself in due course as the brand becomes more widely known.

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From the Archives - February 18, 2010

10:01am Thursday 18th February 2010

100 Years Ago February 19, 1910 IT is hoped by Easter, Evesham bells will once more be ringing. Messrs James Barwell Ltd, of Birmingham, to whom the work of re-hanging the peal has been entrusted, have removed the old wooden frames and fittings put in some 30 years ago, and will re-hang the bells on a new steel frame, with iron headstock, and all the latest improvements. The Evesham Bell Tower bells are acknowledged to be the finest peal of eight in Worcestershire, and if two more bells were added, we are assured by experts that Evesham would have one of the finest rings of 10 in the kingdom. With 10 bells, Grandsire cators and Stedman cators can be rung, and cator ringing is the finest there is. There is plenty of room for two new bells. In fact, there is room for 12 altogether, and the cost would probably not exceed £120 for the two.

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