THE revolting condition of the latrines at Stourbridge Road School occupied the minds of North Bromsgrove School managers when they held their monthly meeting. It was said there was clear evidence they had not been emptied for some time and it was resolved to send a post card to the urban district council, which was responsible for them, urging that they be attended to swiftly.

A LOOK at the advertisement columns in the Messenger revealed Roper's Fancy Bazaar in High Street was selling phonographs, complete with six genuine Edison Bell records for just 9/- (45p). With the annual sausage season now in full swing Goodsons in High Street was selling pork sau sages made from home killed pigs at 8d (3.5p) per pound. Counds cycles meanwhile, also in High Street, had some 80 second-hand machine on sale for as little as a guineas (£1.5p) each.

A VERDICT of accidental death was returned at an inquest held at Droitwich Town Hall into the sad death of Alfred Priddey, a five-year-old orphan. He had been found face down in a wash tub partially sunk into ground used for storing pig swill. The coroner stressed the dangers this posed to youngsters.

WORCESTERSHIRE Shire Horse Society held its annual show in a field near Droitwich Railway Station where around 240 animals had been arrayed. Mr Johnson, of Woodcote, near Dodford, took the championship bowl with one of his horses.

THE thousands of visitors who annually flocked to Rednal and Bilberry Hill would have good cause in future to thank Mr Berrow Cadbury. He had paid for the dilapidated refreshment room to be pulled down and replaced by the commodious Bilberry Tea Rooms capable of seating 300, and which he had gifted to the City of Birmingham. It had stabling for eight horses and provision to store 170 cycles.