Archive
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Wychbold Horticultural Society
The society’s AGM will be held on Tuesday, October 21, at 7.30pm in the village hall. Mr D Preece will be the guest speaker and there will be a finger buffet and refreshments.
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Spadesbourne Ladies Club
Cheerful chairman Betty Long greeted 68 members and visitors at the September meeting, held at the Bromsgrove Golf Centre. Mary Rutter told us that all the speakers for 2009 are now booked, and Joan English told us of the outing in November to Abbey
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Bentley Pauncefoot WI
Kevin Dicks, acting joint chief executive of Bromsgrove District and Redditch Borough Councils, was the guest speaker at the meeting. He was welcomed on behalf of everyone by Diane Ryan. It proved to be a lively and informative talk about Bromsgrove and
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Lickey Hills Art Society
Lickey Hills Art Society will be holding an exhibition from 10am-4.30pm on Saturday, October 4, at the Longbridge Methodist church hall, on the A38 next to Kidderminster Carpets. Members of the society will be exhibiting and have available for sale, over
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Stoke Prior WI
President Betty Wolsey welcomed members to the September meeting. Christine Jones marked the register and Betty Gibbs read out the business of the last meeting and outlined invitations to future events. The pottery bowl, which was made earlier in
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Bromsgrove Railway Club
For our October meeting we have a change of speaker owing to our holiday. We now have a slide presentation from Hagley-based Alan Atkinson entitled Rails around the Cumbrian Coast. This is an area of Britain which we have never had a presentation on
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Lickey WI
President Christine Bould welcomed members and visitors to the September meeting held at Holy Trinity Church, Lickey. A December outing to the Christmas markets at Bath was announced. Names were taken for the Worcestershire Federation Autumn Council
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50 Years Ago, October 4, 1958
LEO Antosiewicz, the man jailed in 1936 for shooting the licensee of the Golden Cross while burglaring the Bromsgrove hotel, enjoyed four days of freedom when he escaped from Barnsley Hall hospital. He had been transferred to the Bromsgrove mental hospital
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Before the winds of change
FEW towns in Britain have remained untouched by modernisation and change since the last war and Droitwich Spa is no exception. This photo of the town centre, taken it is thought in the early 1950s, shows Victoria Square looking towards Ombersley Street
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25 Years Ago, September 30, 1983
DUSTMEN employed by Bromsgrove District Council had reluctantly agreed that eight of their number would lose their jobs in a shake up of the service, designed to save £82,000 a year. They had been warned to agree to the move or their jobs would be farmed
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100 years ago, October 3, 1908
LICKEY Grange, well appointed and occupying a fine position on the slopes of the picturesque hills, came up for auction this week due to owner Joseph Rowland’s move to Malvern. The bidding opened at £5,000 and continued up to £8,250 after which there
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Dyke lifts Bowl title
PHIL Dyke lifted the Morris Bowl after a victory over David Thompson in the final at Bromsgrove Golf Club. Dyke finished the match four holes up with three to play, to earn him the title.
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Sunday league football results (September 28)
Bromsgrove and District Sunday Football League results (September 28): WFA County Junior Cup round one: Inkberrow 2 MP Hanbury 9, Warndon Athletic 10 Navigation 2, D and P La Coruna 2 BMC Dons 0, Ambassador 4 Meadow Park 1, Bromsgrove Gen Res 2 New AFC
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Spa seconds crush Dudley
A YOUNG Droitwich RFC second team turned in an impressive display to crush Dudley Kingswinford fourths 63-3 on Saturday. Droitwich took the lead after five minutes when skipper Ben Thomas broke from the back of a catch and drive to power over
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Woeful Spa suffer defeat
Earlsdon 15 Droitwich RFC 3 DROITWICH produced a disjointed and lacklustre display at Coventry-based Earlsdon in Midlands Division Three West (South) on Saturday. In superb conditions, the Spa side never threatened to score, let alone
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Airlift for young moto-cross rider
A YOUNG moto-cross rider has been airlifted to hospital after crashing while practicing for a race in the grounds of a Bromsgrove hotel yesterday (Sunday, September 28). The incident took place at an organised event at the Grafton Manor Hotel, on the
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Helping hospital patients in west Africa
HOSPITAL patients in west Africa will benefit from new hi-tech equipment now being used at the Alexandra hospital. As part of continued improvement to trauma services at the Redditch hospital the department has recently upgraded its old nailing systems
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Tea dance and musical bingo
A BUPA care home in Bromsgrove is marking the UK Older People’s Day 2008 with a fun-packed event. On Wednesday, October 1, Heathbrook House Nursing Home, in Worcester Road, Stoke Heath, is hosting a tea dance with vocal entertainer and musical bingo
