250 YEARS AGO:

TWO more incendiary letters, in the same hand-writing, threatening fire in Worcester, having lately appeared in the High Street, Worcester, and the mayor has promised a reward of 20 guineas for discovering the author or authors thereof. The letters threaten the city with fire “for its disgrace in harbouring lazy thieving beggars”.

● The paymasters of the parish of St Clement, Worcester, return their thanks to a gentlewoman of the county for her kind benefaction of five guineas received by the churchwardens towards repairing their parish church.

As the expenses attending the necessary repairs of the said church will be very considerable and a heavy burden on the parish, other assistances from welldisposed persons will be duty esteemed and most thankfully accepted.

200 YEARS AGO:

A FEW days since, Vaughan Pritchett, a boy, was taken to Worcester infirmary with a fractured thigh. His case, we hope, will prove a warning to others.

He got up behind a person’s carriage with another boy and while they were playing together, the thigh of the former got between the spokes of the wheel and caused the above accident.

● Some charcoal contained in a wagon returning from Pensax, near Tenbury, on Thursday caught fire at Henwick and was, with the waggon, entirely consumed.

● To be let, that goodaccustomed inn known by the sign of the Bird In Hand, desirably situate at the Cross near the Hop Market in the city of Worcester. The above inn has been recently built with cellaring for 40 hogsheads. There is a large kitchen, parlour, dining room and bar, and five good lodging rooms together with a spacious brew-house and a roomy stable.

150 YEARS AGO:

WORCESTER China. The following fact speaks well for itself. On Wednesday last, Messrs Kerr & Co. of the Royal Porcelain Works in this city received, by electric telegraph at 11 o’clock in the morning, an order through a London house from the Queen of Spain for a dinner service for 60 persons, richly gilt and with a gold device in the centre, the service consisting of 600 pieces.

The order has been duly executed in the short interval that has elapsed and left the works this Friday afternoon.

There were upwards of 100 hands employed upon it.

● Daniel Pagett, a member of the local militia corps, was charged at Worcester Police Court with stealing two tumbler glasses from the Crystal Palace Gin Shop in Angel Street, Worcester, the property of the landlord John Hadley. Pagett was sentenced to 14 days hard labour.

● New song. We refer our readers to the publication of a new song, Auld Michael the Miller, the words by WT Quarrell of Fladbury and the music by WK Wheatley of Evesham. We are assured that the words are full of humour and the music wellsuited to them. The air is lively and such as cannot fail to please all who hear it.

100 YEARS AGO:

ON Thursday evening, Ernest Teall, a 14-year-old boy living at 37 Carden Street, Worcester and working as an express messenger for the city’s Tramways Company, was knocked down by a motor car near the Swan Inn, Barbourne.

He was about to get on to a tram-car when a car from Bowen’s Garage ran into him.

He was badly cut about the face and greatly affected by the shock. The boy was conveyed to our infirmary where his injuries were attended to and today he was described as “not too well”.

● A man named Herbert Joyner (21) of Bransford Road, Worcester, was taken to the infirmary on Friday and detained, suffering from concussion and a severe injury to the shoulder.

He was driving a dray loaded with pipes when a bough of a tree fell on him, causing him to fall to the ground and a wheel of the dray passed over his shoulder.

● Charged at Worcester Police Court with being drunk and disorderly in the Shambles, Alice Rose Pace (32), married woman of 18 Lich Street, pleaded guilty.

PC Harrington said the defendant had a crowd of 150 people round her. This was her 14th conviction and she was sent to prison for seven days