THE BISTO kids were heading Bromsgrove's way. Housewives were told to look out for their car carrying the pair and if they called and you could show them a packet of the famous gravy powder you could win a £1 voucher.

THE once popular amateur boxing matches at the Drill Hall in Bromsgrove seemed to be losing out to TV and radio. This week less that 100 spectators turned up to watch the bouts which had such useful objects as biscuit barrels, cruets and dinner sets as prizes for the winners.

PLANS were being made for next June's coronation celebrations in Bromsgrove and surrounding villages. In the town a preliminary meeting was held inviting ideas on how to spend the £1,500 the district council had allocated out of the rates. Large beacons would be lit at Breakback and Lickey and the town's carnival would be revived.

THE popular Christmas fatstock show and sale in Bromsgrove, which before the war was the traditional curtain raiser for the festive season when between 300 and 400 beasts came under the hammer would not be held this year. Its demise was due to Government regulations which stipulated meat from animals slaughtered in the town had to be sent to a central depot from where a specified allocation would be returned.

AN arcade giving shoppers protection from the elements, the first of its kind to be built by Birmingham Corporation would be a feature of a new housing estate at Edgewood Road, Rednal.