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November 29 - December 6

11:10am Monday 1st December 2008

100 YEARS AGO:

November 24-Dec 1

The Berrow's Journal photographo of the 1908 unveiling of the  South African War Memorial outside Worcester Cathedral.

10:30am Monday 24th November 2008

100 YEARS AGO:

November 15-22

11:20am Monday 17th November 2008

100 YEARS AGO:

November 8 - 15

10:39am Monday 10th November 2008

Michael Grundy browses through the fascinating archives of the world’s oldest newspaper, Berrow’s Worcester Journal, and pages from the Worcester News

November 1 - 8

150 years ago - Dolday, Worcester seen here early 20th Century - Seven-year-old boy, shoeless was first sent to prison then reformatory.

11:20am Monday 3rd November 2008

Michael Grundy browses through the fascinating archives of the world’s oldest newspaper, Berrow’s Worcester Journal, and pages from the Worcester News - Upto the 1900's.

October 25 to November 1

See 100 years ago.

10:54am Monday 27th October 2008

100 YEARS AGO: ON Wednesday morning, Mr EA Burgess of Lowesmoor, a Worcester city councillor, sustained a nasty injury which necessitated his removal to the infirmary where he now lies with a broken leg.

October 18-24

Worcester's very first police station was in Copenhagen Street. See: 100 years ago.

10:00am Monday 20th October 2008

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October 11-18

10:50am Monday 13th October 2008

100 YEARS AGO: A PUBLIC meeting was held in St John’s Infants School on Monday when residents of the St John’s and Bath Road areas complained bitterly about the smells suffered for months from the city sewage works. Speakers recorded their sense of deep concern over the unpleasant and dangerous nuisance caused by the close proximity of the works and the present method of sewerage disposal.

October 6 - 13

Trading at the Hop Market yard, off Foregate Street, Worcester. See 200 years ago.

10:50am Monday 6th October 2008

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September 27 to October 4

St Nicholas Street, where, in 1858, a butcher’s boy drove a horse “furiously” and as a result found himself in the dock at the city’s police court.

12:08pm Monday 29th September 2008

250 YEARS AGO:

September 20-27

8:10am Tuesday 23rd September 2008

250 YEARS AGO:

SEPTEMBER 13-20

12:00pm Monday 15th September 2008

250 YEARS AGO:

September 6 to September 13

A messenger boy for the Worcester tramways was injured trying to jump aboard one of the city’s trams in 1908, like this one on Foregate Street.

10:02am Monday 8th September 2008

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August 29 to September 6

8:58am Tuesday 2nd September 2008

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