THE Stoke Prior brush works of L G Harris celebrated its silver jubilee with a gala and sports day held on the Hanbury Road playing field. The company's managing director Leslie Harris crowned Mrs Joan Walters as Miss Brushworks. Jean Barratt and Brenda Taylor were her attendants. All of them had been chosen by popular vote among employees.

COUNCIL tenants on the new Charford estate in Bromsgrove received letters from the council warning them that they faced eviction if they persisted in parking their cars on their front gardens and on grass verges near their homes. Only a few had indicated they wanted a garage.

A PUBLIC meeting was held at Fairfield to decide how to wind up the Coronation arrangements and spend the £29 balance from the celebration fund. Among the proposals was to buy a clock for the village and have it installed in the church wall, send a guinea to the Westminster Abbey fund and spend the remainder on swings for the Recreation Ground.

THE villages of Stoke Works and Wychbold were to lose their branch libraries but a new one was to open at Rubery County Primary School. And £1,500 was to be spent on purchasing a mobile library to serve rural areas. Last year a total of 109,477 books were borrowed from Bromsgrove library, the largest number from any of the county's libraries. This was 8,630 up on the previous year.

STAFF at the Austin Motor Company at Longbridge were being encouraged to do a quality job through the activities of "Particular Pete." He was a cartoon character which the firm hoped would inspire staff to be conscientious. Every week a different poster would be put up in the factory accompanied by a suitable rhyme. Workers whose verses were chosen would get a £5 reward.