January 11 to January 18, 2010 (From Worcester News)

January 11 to January 18, 2010

9:18am Monday 11th January 2010 in

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100 YEARS AGO

ON Saturday night the residence of Cuthbert Cook in Ombersley Road, Worcester, headmaster of the Council School, Hound’s Lane, was forcibly entered, the front door having been wrenched open with a crowbar. Two rooms were ransacked and several items of jewellery stolen, including a gold watch and an engagement ring. The police are still trying to trace the thieves and the stolen property, much of which is of great sentimental value to Mr and Mrs Cook.

150 YEARS AGO:(see picture)

THE graceful iron structure across the Severn is rapidly approaching completion and on Saturday the first train, consisting of an engine and tender, decorated with flags and evergreens and with half-a-dozen loaded ballast waggons attached, passed over it, and trains have since crossed the river daily.

Yesterday, Colonel Yolland, the Government inspector, made an official inspection of the bridge in the presence of railway officials and engineers.

Three large locomotive goods engines and tenders, weighing upwards of 150 tons, were running backwards and forwards several times over the bridge at various rates of speed. An engine and several ballast waggons, heavily laden, were also passed over the structure and drawn up afterwards on each arch. The inspection proved satisfactory, the deflection of the bridge with this enormous weight being very trifling, not more than half-an-inch. Colonel Yolland will now make an official report.

200 YEARS AGO:

MR Bell, drawing master, having removed from Broad Street, Worcester to St John’s, Bedwardine, near this city (on the Bransford road near the turnpike), takes this opportunity of respectfully acquainting his friends and patrons that specimens of his drawing in oil or water colour may be seen at his house or at Mr Hickey’s, print seller, in Foregate Street, Worcester.

Mr Bell begs leave to inform those ladies and gentlemen, or their families, who wish to be instructed in the elegant accomplishment of painting or drawing that they will receive many advantages while under his tuition.

250 YEARS AGO:

AT our races in Worcester, which will be on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday next, there is the greatest likelihood of a very numerous appearance of persons of distinction, and as many horses are already in town, and others daily expected.There will, in all probability, be exceedingly good sport each day.

● On Thursday, as a woman was washing a bed cover by the side of our river at Worcester, she unfortunately pitched head foremost in and was drowned.

● Yesterday was married at Ombersley, Christopher Bethel, of Hanover Square, London to the Hon Miss Sandys, youngest daughter of the Lord Sandys – a most amiable and accomplished young lady, as eminently endowed and adorned with the good qualities and disposition of mind, beauty and gracefulness in her person as she is distinguished by her high birth and noble extraction.