Continuing our series of stories about the archive of historical newspapers we recently handed over to our readers, Beverly Abbs speaks to Lisa Ventura, of St John's, Worcester, about what 1950 means to her and her family, while Josephine Wilson, of Rushwick, near Worcester, talks about the significance of January 1980 in her life

LISA Ventura presented her 65-year-old mother, Linda, with a surprise bound edition of the July 1950 Worcester Evening News and Times to celebrate her birthday on the 25th of that month.

Linda Ventura said : “I was thrilled when my daughter gave me this book of every copy of the Evening News from July 1950.

"I was born on July 25 and I was amazed to find my birth announcement in the paper on that day. One of my relatives must have gone to get it into the paper after I was born as I was born early in the morning, and it must have been in time to make that day’s edition.

"This volume is a gift I will treasure forever and a lovely piece of history to own.”

Lisa Ventura said: "I got the idea when I visited my cousin who had a picture on the wall of a front page of the paper containing a photo of her marriage."

Josephine Wilson, of Rushwick, Worcester

January 1980

1980 was the year that Josephine Wilson and her husband, Geoffrey, moved to Worcester from Manchester.

She said: "We moved because of my husband's job, but I didn't want to come here.

"It took me two or three years to settle, but now it is home and I wouldn't go back.

"When I return to visit I breathe a sigh of relief when I am back again on the M5 heading for Worcestershire and Rushwick where we live.

"We moved here in April 1980, but I have the January bound volume. I just wanted to see what was going on in Worcester the year we moved.

"Things were very different 35 years ago, for instance the newspaper was much larger and there were pages and pages and pages of job adverts."