1803: The annual general meeting of the Worcester Library Society will be held on Tuesday next at noon in the Library Rooms near Angel Street. Every subscriber not attending nor paying his or her annual subscription at or before that meeting will incur a forfeit of One Shilling.

To be published this day, price 3s.6d, 'A Cure for the Indiscretions of Youth,' wherein are laid down radical cures for nervous and hypochrondriac complaints with specific essays on venereal complaints and seminal weaknesses and on a certain destructive vice of a secret nature. Neither single nor married of both sexes should be a moment without having this publication in their possession."

We are informed that on Sunday next, the Dissenters' Meeting House in Angel Street will, after considerable improvements and repairs, re-open for public worship. On that day, charity sermons will be preached for the benefit of more than 130 poor children who attend the Sunday schools at that place.

1903: Worcester City Council has introduced a by-law prohibiting bookmaking, betting or wagering in any street or public place in the city. Any person who shall offend against this by-law shall be liable to a penalty of 40 shillings for every such offence.

Port Wine, vintage 1900, is available from Lewis, Clarke and Co., of Worcester - Cockburn at 32/- per dozen bottles and Martinez at the same cost.

City councillors have approved a £5,820 scheme for a new sewage works for Worcester to be built on land alongside Bromwich Road. The vote in the city water and sewage committee was 35 for the project and only two against.

Thomas Bullock, a carter of Wichenford, was fined 10/- at the Worcester County Petty Sessions for being drunk in charge of four horses at Wichenford. P.C Smith said the defendant had to hold on to the traces to keep himself, and when he loosed, he fell down and was nearly run over.

1953: "Gay Scenes at Ledbury Hunt Ball" - The ballroom of the Bell Hotel, Gloucester was a gay spectacle for the 19th annual Ledbury Hunt Ball in aid of hunt funds. In spite of snow and difficult travelling conditions, 235 guests were present, mainly from the Ledbury area.

The 1st City of Worcester Home Guard comrades held their annual dinner at the Guildhall where the chief guest, Col. Roy Harrison, Officer Commanding the 5th Battalion, the Worcestershire Home Guard, told the gathering: "I can report to you that we have a fine body of men. We are ready and shall be prepared if trouble again arises."

Pershore Abbey Organist Mr Rodney Baldwyn and his wife Freda are to give a show by their marionettes in the WI Hall on three evenings next week in aid of the Abbey Improvement Fund.