This week in 1992:
UP to 200 jobs could be created in Worcester if proposals for supermarket giant Waitrose to come to the city get the go-ahead.
Developers Wright Properties of Maidenhead plan to demolish the former Eltex factory in Bromyard Road to accommodate a new 28,000 sq ft Waitrose store with parking for more than 200 cars. A planning application has been submitted to the city council but there is likely to be strong opposition from local residents.
* Plans to introduce a bylaw banning tobacco advertising in Worcester have been stubbed out by the Home Office. The advertising of tobacco is already banned on all buildings and land owned by Worcester City Council but the attempt to widen the ban to cover the whole city has been rejected by Whitehall.
This week in 1987:
Waterlogged Worcestershire is bracing itself for a big mopping up operation this weekend after almost a month's rainfall in less than a week. Much of the county has been affected by flooding including the County Cricket Ground at New Road which is submerged under several feet of water. And Worcester weatherman Paul Damari has little consolation for the coming weeks. He predicts more downpours this weekend and warns: "On the whole April is going to be a very wet month indeed."
* More than 100 former employees of the old glove factory in Worcester will be taking tea at Fownes Hotel this month and having a look around the Cinderella-style transformation of their one time workplace. For most of them it will be the first time they have returned to the building since the factory closed in 1971 and glove production moved to Wiltshire. The former employees will be guests of the Fownes Hotel management.
This week in 1977:
PLANS to paint the outside of a Rushwick pub a mustard colour made the locals see red. Now, Rushwick's only pub, the Whitehall Inn, is to stay the colour it has always been - white.
Regulars heard that the exterior was to be painted a deep mustard colour and organised a petition begging the brewery to keep the Whitehall white.
A brewery spokesman stated: "We want to keep up with the wants and wishes of the local people as far a possible and don't want to upset them, so we'll be leaving the Whitehall white."
This week in 1967:
Footbridge for Powick killer road. Sir Gerald Nabarro, MP for South Worcestershire, has won his battle with the Ministry of Transport over the danger to pedestrians crossing the main A449 Worcester to Malvern Road at Powick near the Hospital Lane junction. The Minister has agreed to provide a footbridge over the road on an experimental basis as soon as possible. Sir Gerald favoured a subway but the Minister feels this would not be justified.
Pershore Festival Society has announced its programme for this year's festival which will include a personal appearance by the well-known actor David Kossoff, a concert in Pershore Abbey by the BBC Midland Light Orchestra, and a display of Spanish music and dancing. The festival will run from June 23 to July 2.
This week in 1957:
ON stage for two performances at the Gaumont, Worcester on Sunday, April 28, will be the fabulous Platters and Jack Parnell and his Orchestra.
* Pershore is to do away with all its existing gas street lighting and will replace the system with the latest electric lamp standards and, in some of the main thoroughfares, with sodium lights. The change will cost about £4,000.
* David Willcocks, organist of Worcester Cathedral, has been elected a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge and appointed organist to the college from Michaelmas 1957. The Dean and Chapter of Worcester Cathedral have appointed Douglas Guest, at present organist and master of the choristers at Salisbury cathedral, to succeed Mr Willcocks.
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