This week in 1957:

A RECORD crowd of more than 4,000 was treated to a thrilling afternoon's entertainment at Worcester Auto Club's Temeside scramble at Church Farm, Cotheridge. Due to the activities of the Lord's Day Observance Society, the Worcester club was not able to compel people to pay an admittance fee, but there were few spectators who entered and failed to comply with the club's invitation to subscribe the normal charge of two shillings.

No one could claim that they did not get their money's worth, for in each of the six events there was some excellent riding on the bone-hard, twisting and dipping course. More than 60 competitors from all over the Midlands took part.

l The World Chief Guide, Olave Lady Baden-Powell met more than 1,400 girl guides from Worcestershire at the Shirehall on Sunday. It was the guides' own day and they greeted their leader with a wholehearted performance of a song specially composed in her honour.

This week in 1967:

After Pershore police had heard whispers going round the town, they decided to have a second look at the circumstances surrounding a car and lorry crash in Three Springs Road.

Inspector Norman Barker told Pershore Magistrates Court this week that the further investigation revealed that the car driver had been a local girl, aged 12. She pleaded guilty to driving without due car while under the age of 17 and without insurance. She was put under the care of the local council.

l Yehudi Menuhin, the world famous violinist, cut the tape at the entrance to mark the official opening of the redesigned Elgar Birthplace at Broadheath on Friday. By his side was Mrs Carice Elgar Blake, the composer's daughter.

This week in 1977:

Worcester in 1575 - the year of the Royal visit of the first Queen Elizabeth - has just been colourfully and accurately captured in pictorial form by a Worcester artist and historian.

It's a 30in by 20in pictorial map painstakingly produced by Mrs Pat Hughes of Bromwich Road. It involved her in 18 months of investigation to discover the site and size of every house and property in Worcester in the second half of the 16th century.

Her researches took her to the British Museum, the Church Commissioners in London, the Public Record Office, the County Library, the County Record Office, the Cathedral Library, the Worcester Corporation archives, and to various museums. She also made what she describes as "a thorough nuisance" of herself going to every High Street property and asking to see the cellars and areas at the rear. The rich result is a colourful map, fit to grace the wall of any home, office or school in Worcestershire, and it's now on sale.

This week in 1987:

A Worcester pub has changed its image - and its name - in a £100,000 renovation scheme. Locals said goodbye to the old Royal George at Tunnel Hill in February. This week they welcomed the Jolly Sportsman, the newly created pub with new landlords Nick and Carmen Hayward. This Whitbread pub now has a pool table, skittle alley and a function room.

l Too many developments for old people are branding Pershore a haven for geriatrics, planners have been warned. Councillor Jack Hornby asked fellow members of Wychavon District planning committee: "How much more sheltered housing is Pershore to take? We are already becoming known as Geriatric Pershore." The committee was considering plans to build sheltered housing for the elderly at the back of Broad Street, Pershore.

This week in 1992:

Three local companies have received Royal accolades in the shape of the Queen's Award to Industry. Machine tool manufacturers Yamazaki, based in Worcester since 1987, receives its first award after seeing its exports grow to £45 million last year. Cosworth Castings in Hylton Road has won its award for the significant part it played in clinching a major export order for its parent company, Cosworth Engineering of Northampton which designs and produces car engines. The electronics division of the Defence Research Agency at Malvern has been given the Queen's Award to Industry for its continuing success story.