A PLAN was being considered to put the rubbish collected from households in Bromsgrove to good use. The urban district council’s parks and cemeteries committee wanted to use it to build up marshy, low lying areas in Sanders Park. The surveyor was to draw up a feasibility report.

THE Ministry of Transport was unmoved by Bromsgrove’s worsening traffic congestion problems. Officials said that there was no hope of getting a bypass in the near future and a proposed relief road through the Council House grounds, Crown Close and into the Crescent could only be included in the 15-year roads programme after 1964.

ITV personality Jean Morton opened a branch of Hardys ‘the nation’s leading furnisher’ in Bromsgrove High Street. Opening offers included a kitchen table and four chairs for just 11guineas or 2/6 a week for 104 weeks; a dining suite for 37 guineas or 8/8 a week and mattresses at six guineas or on easy terms 1/6 a week. The firm operated a no deposit and payment by post schemes.