100 Years Ago

August 25, 1906

It was not generally expected that General Booth would make a call at Evesham when he passed through on Saturday on his journey from Stratford-on-Avon to Bath, but his supporters and admirers were present in such strong force that he could not bring himself to disappoint them. He therefore stopped for a short time and spoke a few encouraging words to those who had assembled to welcome him. It was remarked that the veteran Salvation Army leader was looking in excellent health, but he has aged considerably in appearance since he visited Evesham two years ago.

75 Years Ago

August 22, 1931

The annual show, organised by the Dumbleton Horticultural Society, was held on Wednesday in the Park, by kind permission of Sir Bolton and Lady Eyres Monsell. The beautiful gardens of Dumbleton Hall were thrown open for the occasion, and despite adverse weather conditions experienced, visitors were able to see a beautiful display of flowers. The entries this year were numerically below the standard, but the quality was maintained. Messrs Pearce and Whiteley, head gardeners respectively of Sudeley Castle and Buckland Manor, were judges for the fruit, vegetables and flower sections, and Mrs. Fisher, of Wormington Grange, adjudicated in the industrial section for garments etc. Mrs. C.T. Scott, of Buckland Manor, judged the classes for cakes, jam, bottled fruit etc. The Alderton Brass Band played selections during the afternoon and evening.

50 Years Ago

August 24, 1956

Farmers want the sun. Reports from all over the West Midlands speak of frustration and delays and with no sign of a warm spell to finish the ripening of a lot of the spring grain, farmers are resigning themselves to a harvest much later than anticipated even a few weeks ago. Although the binders have cut a fair acreage of winter oats, and some barley, conditions have been too wet in many places for combines, even among ripened corn. A Worcestershire farmer who grows four or five hundred acres of grain reports that he "stole" a few acres of oats over the week-end in which moisture content turned out to be no less than 26 per cent. Unless a settled period of dry weather intervenes, a high proportion of grain will need the drier.