FINAL preparations were in hand for next month's Coronation festivities. Decorations were being erected in Bromsgrove, for which traders had chipped in £300 towards the cost, and in Rubery. A 16mm cine film was to be made of Bromsgrove's Coronation carnival procession.

FRESH from its success in obtaining the services of a resident doctor in Stoke Prior the parish council now had its sights set on getting a pharmacy. Such a facility was necessary it was claimed, because of the village's rapid post war development.

WELL-KNOWN local farmer John Dickinson from Bluntington near Chaddesley Corbett was knocked down and crushed by one of his bulls, leaving him severely injured. He was taken to hospital in Kidderminster and the beast was destroyed.

BROMSGROVE photographer Philip Pershke was the only exhibitor from Worcestershire to have a picture accepted to hang in the Coronation exhibition of professional photographers in Pall Mall, London. It was a photograph of a wedding at Tardebigge church.