100 Years Ago

November 19 1904

A sale of work to defray expenses incurred in erecting a boundary wall at St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, was held in the Town Hall, Evesham, on Tuesday and Wednesday. On Tuesday there was a good attendance at the opening ceremony, which was performed by the Countess of Gainsborough. A brisk trade was done at the stalls during the afternoon and evening. The hall had been very tastefully decorated by by Mr G Vant and Mr P Blakeley.

75 Years Ago

November 16 1929

Alderman Henry Masters, proposing the adoption of the Highways Committee report at Evesham Town Council, said that besides the ordinary maintenance, improvement schemes had been carried out to footways and carriage ways in Port-street and Broadway Road. Reference was also made in the minutes to a census of traffic taken at Worcester Road and Elm Road during a week in August when the number of mechanical vehicles recorded was 5,769 and 19,101 respectively.

50 Years Ago

November 20 1954

By tossing a coin the chairman and vice-chairman of Evesham Rural District Council's Housing Committee, Mr R L Brazier and Mr D G S Russell, decided which of two railwaymen should first be allocated a new council house in Church Honeybourne. Mrs A Hodgkins told the council this on Monday and she said: "To ask such irresponsible people to decide on the future welfare and happiness of families waiting for a home on this basis is an insult to every selection committee and all the applicants."

25 Years Ago

November 22 1979

In a hundred years or so, the people of Evesham will not have to look in their history books to find out what Evesham was like in the 1970s. For it will all be found in a posterity box which is to be buried beneath the new extension at Wallace House Youth and Community Centre, Oat Street, Evesham. John Ray, the Evesham youth leader, told the Journal yesterday: "Members of Wallace House have come up with this idea to leave a record of what today's generation did and thought. "We want to put things in the box which are representative of Evesham in the 1970s. We are appealing to members of the community to come up with ideas for the box."