THE wooden church hall built at a cost of £300 in a corner of a strawberry field alongside Middle Road, Wildmoor, was used for Holy Communion for the first time on Easter Sunday. It would be used for the spiritual and secular needs of the community. The land had been donated by Walter Webb, of Townsend Farm, Bromsgrove.

WARM, sunny weather on Easter Monday brought day trippers out in their thousands. In Bromsgrove it was the busiest day for 35 years as vehicles of all shapes and sizes headed south for the Malverns and Gloucestershire daffodil fields. Police were on point duty in the town centre, but were unable to stop long queues forming. One observer in Birmingham Road reported seeing 15 Midland Red busses in the space of five minutes.

DROITWICH sea bathing Lido had been acquired by Droitwich Town Council along with Brine Baths Park in which it had been built 20 years ago. It was opened by Sir Chad Woodward, chairman of the county council. At the original opening in 1935 film star Ralph Lynn had christened the pool by emptying a bottle of champagne into it.

HIT by a labour shortage, Bromsgrovian Winston Field, whose father had been a town tradesman and bailiff, had hit on an idea to encourage Europeans to work on the 9,000 acre holding in Southern Rhodesia he had farmed for 32 years. He was arranging for four peasant Italian families to move to Africa under a scheme which he claimed would encourage tenant farming.

DESPITE protests, Clent Hills Conservators decided to uphold their earlier decision to ban dry tobogganing on the grassy slopes. They feared the rising popularity of the sport would damage the grass.