BROMSGROVE Rovers had been saved from financial ruin by the supporters' Victoria Club and its weekly football sweep, the club's annual meeting held at the Roebuck pub in High Street heard. They had given £1,000 towards the new floodlights £638 for general expenses and £250 to pay outstanding debts. The season had been bad financially due to poor gates and increased costs. Sadly for the club the police had now ordered the sweep to stop.

THE unusual hand-painted village sign which had stood at Rum Alley in Belbroughton for many years and which had been vandalised in 1949, had been restored by the original artist Mrs Harper, of Lydiate House.

NINE years after the end of the war meat had finally come off ration. This led to a wide fluctuation in prices in shops in Bromsgrove where rump steak had reached 6/- (30p) per pound but had now settled at around 4/6 (22.5p) a pound due to shrewd housewives refusing to pay the inflated prices.

OFFICIALS at All Saint's Church in Bromsgrove opened the first of 750 collection boxes which had been distributed round the parish to raise cash for repairs to the fabric. It contained £300 in sixpences.

HEAVY rain was giving farmers, struggling to bring in their hay crops, a headache. And those who managed to save some of their crop were battling against the same biting wind that had blown since January. Locally crops of soft fruit were said to be three weeks late.