THE farming enterprise at Bromsgrove Workhouse showed a profit of £89, according to the accounts drawn up last Michaelmas and at Lady Day. The master had also been given the go-ahead to purchase a large tub for scalding pigs and to buy two new mole traps.

A POORLY-attended meeting was held at the Victoria Hall, in Alcester Road, to discuss an idea to launch a workmen's club on similar lines to the one at Aston Fields. But there were some who could not agree if it should sell intoxicants or not. It was pointed out that the Institute, in New Road, had a room with a good fire where members could relax and enjoy board games but it was not very popular.

SALTER'S Hall, in Droitwich, would be a death trap in the event of a fire, a report concluded. The doors all opened inwards making escape impossible in the event of an audience panicking. Sanitary arrangements were also inadequate, it was said.

SIDEMOOR lads Ernest and Frank Jones, Walter and Charles Kings, George Phillips and George Ward found themselves in front of magistrates at Bromsgrove police court charged with playing football with a tin can in Willow Road. Residents had complained about the noise. Each was fined 1/- as an example to others not to do the same.

AN increased interest in the game of cricket in Barnt Green prompted the formation of a working men's club. Mr A Roberts had promised them a field in which to play and two bats and balls had been obtained, as well as a set of stumps. The inaugural meeting of the club was held at the local pub, hence its name Barnt Green Victoria. It was open to all men aged 16 and over in the locality.