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Nostalgia - Gissit isn’t only a Papal imperative

12:00pm Thursday 17th May 2012

Formality or friendliness? That was the question as Journal editor Bill Clarke, writing as Ben Judd, pondered the usage and significance of the Asum command ‘gissit’ in 1959

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‘Bored housewife’ got away with five trolleys-worth in store raid

12:00pm Thursday 26th April 2012

A SUPERMARKET in Bridge Street, Evesham, was raided 40 years ago.

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Nostalgia - The day the sun stopped shining

9:00am Thursday 26th April 2012

THE Journal reported on an eclipse 100 years ago.

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Was ist das? German filmcrew treated to Olimpick showcase

11:28am Thursday 12th April 2012

AS preparations steam ahead for the 400th Cotswolds Games this summer, 40 years ago a Journal reporter was experiencing some of the event’s sports at a special showcase.

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School plays in 1972

2:30pm Saturday 24th March 2012

THIS picture from 1972 shows pupils of Evesham High School presenting one in a series of three plays.

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Estate agents reported boom in house sales, with soaring prices

9:34am Thursday 22nd March 2012

HOUSE sales in Evesham were booming 40 years ago.

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‘We’re holding our own,’ said grateful vicar to townspeople

10:28am Thursday 8th March 2012

THE people of Evesham earned warm praise from the Vicar of the town, Rev A Webb, 40 years ago.

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IT certainly wouldn’t have been advertised on the billboards, but the climax of Captain Nayara Swami’s lion taming act with Ringland’s Circus in Abbey Park, Evesham, in 1950 came when three of his animals turned on him.

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Quite a result

9:33am Thursday 15th December 2011

THE Journal reported on a junior football match 40 years ago, the scoreline of which could most charitably described as “conclusive”. The report of 1971 read: “Evesham Cubs found Hampton Cubs in fine footballing form last week.

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Top honour for former war artist

9:32am Thursday 15th December 2011

A VALE artist won a great honour 40 years ago.

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Mayor’s pride at second chance to proclaim a new king in 1936

9:28am Thursday 15th December 2011

THESE were the scenes when people gathered in Evesham to hear the news of a new king 75 years ago.

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From the archives

9:30am Thursday 15th December 2011

100 years ago

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From the archives

10:10am Thursday 24th November 2011

100 years ago

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Scouts got a smart new base

10:08am Thursday 24th November 2011

A SMART new base for Scouts in Pershore was described as “too grand to be a hut” 40 years ago.

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Dream came true for youngster with a tour of town’s fire station

10:06am Thursday 24th November 2011

A DREAM came true for a little boy 40 years ago when he was taken on a tour of Evesham Fire Station.

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Face to face with the past

11:14am Tuesday 22nd November 2011

THE almost complete skeleton of a 5th century Anglo- Saxon woman was discovered in Bidford 40 years ago.

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Crash into pylon plunged village into darkness

11:12am Tuesday 22nd November 2011

A VALE village was plunged into darkness 40 years ago when a car left the road, flew through the air – passing over a deep ditch – and hit a wire supporting an electricity pylon.

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Journalist of 1911 painted vivid word picture of hunt’s first meet

11:06am Tuesday 22nd November 2011

THE Journal published a highly detailed report of a hunt’s first meet of the season 100 years ago.

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FROM THE ARCHIVE

11:08am Tuesday 22nd November 2011

100 years ago November 18, 1911 FOR many years one of the special features of the Overbury Court gardens has been the growing of chrysanthemums, and the perfection to which this favourite flower of Japan has reached was well shown on Sunday when the beautiful grounds and conservatory were opened to the public by the usual thoughtfulness of Sir Richard and Lady Martin, who gave a very kindly greeting to each one of the many visitors. Coming to the show itself, one was struck by the immense size, especially in the bronze and white varieties, of the blooms which rivalled in purity of colour and symmetry the prize winners seen at the Birmingham and Cheltenham shows. Beautifully arranged in groups under gigantic palms or on each side of doorways, these monster bouquets in which the colours of bronze, white, yellow and cream were perfectly blended, and contrasted, and from which pretty blue spikes of salvia reared their heads, reminded one of previous journeys into Eastern lands where these floral displays are an everyday occurrence.