January 25 to February 1, 2010 (From Worcester News)

January 25 to February 1, 2010

3:07pm Monday 25th January 2010 in

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250 YEARS AGO:

YESTERDAY morning, as some men were digging by the side of the foundation on which St Martin’s Church in the Cornmarket lately stood, they met with a coffin much decayed which, upon their endeavouring to remove, burst asunder, whereupon they discovered within it, entire, some old-fashioned tobacco pipes, a small, threehandled black earthen cup and a pewter chamber pot. It is generally conjectured that this coffin originally contained the corpse of some jolly old toper who desired that the above apparatus might be deposited with him.

● Mr Hull, surgeon of Evesham, informs the public that he inoculates according to the best and most approved method which has already benefited 30,000 patients around the kingdom without one person being lost. Mr Hull has opened two very large and convenient houses near the Evesham turnpike, remarkable for their beautiful prospects and wholesomeness of air, where constant attention will be given and every accommodation made available. Those coming for inoculation will be expected to pay three guineas for which they will be suitably accommodated with tea, wine, washing and linen. Mr Hull will also wait upon any number of patients at home within 15 miles of Evesham and inoculate them at one guinea each, they providing all necessities other than medicines.

200 YEARS AGO:

ON Monday, John Wynne was brought before two of our Magistrates at Worcester charged by his masters, John and Josiah Palmer of this city, with having quitted their service, in which he was engaged as a skinner, without having given them any previous notice or intimation thereof and leaving his work in an unfinished and perishing state. He was committed to hard labour in our house of correction for six weeks. We hope this will prove a sharp warning to persons employed in similar situations.

150 YEARS AGO:

HOUSEHOLDERS and others will do well to peruse the notice elsewhere in this week’s edition setting out the severe penalties of infringing the law by allowing boys under 21 years’ of age to ascend or descend their chimneys for the purpose of cleaning them. Measures are being taken to enforce the law.

● The annual Golden Lion ball came off on Tuesday at the Guildhall, Worcester, and was, as usual, wellattended.

Dancing commenced at 9pm to the strains of Mr Hopkins’ band and was kept up with much spirit until an early hour next morning. The supper provided by the landlady of the Golden Lion was both elegant and profuse, and nothing was left undone that could at all conduce to the comfort and happiness of her guests.

● A large circle of the friends of Mr and Mrs Pratt of the Coventry Arms Inn (now the Cardinal’s Hat) in Friar Street, Worcester, attended their housewarming dinner on Thursday when the chair was taken by Mr Price, maltster. The dinner was served in first rate style and a glee party was present, singing some excellent music.

100 YEARS AGO:

WORCESTER City Council has received complaints about the nuisance of smoke from the chimneys of the City Waterworks. As a result, the council has agreed that one of Blizzard’s patent smoke abatement appliances should be fixed at an estimated cost of £50, on the understanding that the makers guarantee a reduction in coal consumption of 10 per cent.