BROMSGROVE Trades Council called for butchers to label their goods with the price per pound now that rationing had ended. This was to save embarrassing young housewives who had not been used to ordering meat during and the after the war. One young woman, who innocently asked her butcher for a leg of lamb, was stunned when told the price was way beyond her purse at 19/6 (95.5p). When she said "it's a bit big," the butcher retorted "lambs have big legs!"

MARLBROOK couple Mr and Mrs Joseph Davey, from Birmingham Road, who were both in their eighties, recounted the thrill of being VIP guests of BBC TV, London. Unbeknown to his wife, Joseph contacted the corporation to ask for a song to be played for his wife on Wilfred Pickles' Ask Pickles show to mark their 55th wedding anniversary. He was shocked to receive a telegram inviting them to appear on the programme.

THE crew of a pleasure steamer owned and skippered by a former Bromsgrovian, Herbert Jennings, rescued two holidaymakers when their dinghy sank off Exmouth. Mr Jennings, who had lived in Stourbridge Road, and who had kept a shop in High Street, was taking a party on trip when the exhausted pair were spotted clinging to their capsized craft.