Memory Lane

AT Bromsgrove Petty Sessions Frank Ashton, of Upper Ryland Road in Birmingham, was charged with using indecent language in Rose Hill, Rednal.

The defendant pleaded guilty to the charge, saying that he had, had a drink or two.

He was fined 20s and 7s costs.

IN the Worcestershire and the War section the Messenger reported Private Dennis Corbett had been killed in action.

Mr Corbett had received information about his son’s death from the Red Cross Society.

Pte Corbett was a member of the King’s Royal Rifles and was called up when he was living in South Road, Aston Fields.

AT the annual meeting of the Birmingham Football Combination it was unanimously agreed to suspend the competition.

The previous season, despite the difficulties with the war and more than 60 per cent of players joining the forces, fixtures had managed to be completed with Nuneaton Town champions.

The decision to suspend had been made prior to a larger conference of clubs and affiliated leagues in August, to decide on the future of football the following season.

July 30, 1965.

THE Messenger reported that the future of rail travel in Bromsgrove was still undecided.

Bromsgrove's Railway Station had been threatened with closure earlier that year, and campaigners against were unhappy with the delay of a final decision.

Bromasgrove MP James Dance said he was not satisfied with the “I have nothing to add” comment from Minister of Transport Tom Frazer, which had been given to him after Mr Dance asked the question.

Mr Dance said: “Why can’t we have a decision.

“To my mind this has been going on for too long.”

DROITWICH Rural District Council refused a plan for the rebuilding of Yew Tree Cottage in Hanbury.

Councillors decided it would be wrong to permit new building as the site was away from any area of development, and was in the green belt.

BROMSGROVE Rural Council agreed at an inquiry that 920 acres of land in Beoley – including a designated area of the Redditch new town – should be transferred to Redditch Urban District Council.

Three residents had objected to the transfer on the grounds it should not take place before the plan for the new town was known.

But Councillor Shakels, chairman of Redditch authority’s planning committee, said he felt the new town’s area should not contain fragments of areas under different local authorities including Bromsgrove.

August 2, 1990.

DETAILED plans for a multi-million pound underground museum on the Barnsley Hall site had been revealed.

The ambitious plans would see the world’s largest collection of British cars on display on two floors beneath a space age glass dome built on the 115-acre site.

The plans had been unveiled by the British Motor Industry Heritage Trust, an educational charity supported by the Rover group.

Bromsgrove MP, Hal Miller, said he was in favour of the scheme.

WORCESTER councillors were calling for the resignations of Bromsgrove council leader Margaret Taylor and chief executive officer Bob Bradshaw.

The move came after the sacking of the town’s refuse collectors and the ongoing dispute, which the Worcester councillors said had brought local government into disrepute.

But a motion was withdrawn at Worcester after leader George Randall said it was wrong for them to interfere in the affairs of the Bromsgrove authority.

CRIME had shot up by 12 per cent in Bromsgrove in the first six months of the year.

Figures released revealed there were 5,177 crimes in Bromsgrove and Redditch, up 535 on the previous year.

Police dismissed the increase as “just a blip”.

BROMSGROVE’s third national charity shop had opened in the High Street.

The British Heart Foundation had opened the shop in premises formerly occupied by Brighton’s.

Memory Lane is compiled from the papers dating back to the Messenger's first edition in 1860. The papers are free to view at Bromsgrove Library, in Stratford Road.

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