100 Years Ago

March 25, 1905

Mr George Ash, who for the past 15 years has laboured in connection with the Friends' Meeting House at Evesham, has left the town to enter upon similar work at Rawdon, near Leeds. During the time he has been at Evesham he has made many friends, especially among the working classes. On Wednesday week the members of the Mission at Littleton presented Mr Ash with a marble clock. Mr T. Bubb made the presentation. On Sunday morning Mr Ash was presented with a silver inkstand by members of the Sunday Morning Adult School at Evesham. On Thursday, the Society of Friends at Evesham and Badsey presented Mr Ash with a purse containing £18 15s. Mr T. E. Doeg made the presentation,

75 Years Ago

March 29, 1930

Farewell presentations in connection with the Evesham Board of Guardians took place at a tea given to members and friends in the board room on Wednesday by Messrs. W. Fitzherbert (chairman of the Board), J. Ashwin, H. Masters and C. A. Binyon. The gathering assembled ostensibly for the purpose of making a presentation to the master and matron of the Institution, Mr and Mrs J. Damen. Before this took place, however, Mr Fitzherbert was presented with an illuminated address of thanks for his services as chairman from April 26, 1926, to March 30, 1929. The master and matron were presented with a handsome oak clock.

50 Years Ago

March 26, 1955

Sixty-one houses, most of them condemned, will be cleared away, and 50 families rehoused, if proposals for redeveloping part of the north side of Bewdley-street, Evesham, are approved by the Ministry of Housing and Local Government. On Monday, the Town Council, sitting as a housing committee, adopted the proposals on the recommendation of a sub-committee which had considered plans prepared by the borough surveyor (Mr J. T. Hodson) in consultation with the county planning officer. The area involves embraces the sites of existing properties between Littleworth -street and No. 31 Bewdley-street (on the other side of Freer's Court) and adjoining market garden land.

25 Years Ago

March 27, 1980

Department of Transport surveyors are to start work soon on plotting a detailed route for Evesham's promised bypass. It was announced this week that they will shortly be seeking access to carry out topographical surveys on land in which the proposed route of the bypass lies. The route, about which the public was consulted last December, follows a line east of the town, starting on the A435 trunk road just south of Brooklands Farm and rejoining the trunk road at Twyford Bank, north of Evesham.