A CENTURY ago this week, Worcester City Council was recommended by its Electricity Committee to approve plans for a new generating station on a site at the corner of Hylton Road and Tybridge Street.

This was to replace the city's first electric power station at Powick Mills and was estimated to cost £30,450.

6 TO cap an extremely eventful week in and around the Faithful City in 1901, the Journal announced that the Worcester Volunteers were on their way home from distinguished service in the war against the Boers in South Africa.

"They are expected to land at Southampton next Thursday and will arrive at Shrub Hill Station on Friday where they will be greeted by the Mayor and Corporation and by comrades already back in Worcester and those sent home previously with serious wounds. The Volunteers will then be fitly entertained at the Guildhall and will march afterwards to the Cathedral for a thanksgiving service.

"The Mayor hopes that his fellow citizens will decorate their homes and places of business for the return of the Volunteers from South Africa and will also contribute to the fund for their entertainment."