100 Years Ago March 28 1903

A meeting of the Broadway Reading Room committee was held on Wednesday week. Mr A. G. Morris was voted to the chair, and after a lengthened discussion on the letter that appeared in the Evesham Journal of last week on the need of increased accommodation, it was unanimously resolved, on the motion of Dr. Standring, seconded by Mr Jarrett, that the possibility of improving the room be discussed at the forthcoming annual general meeting.

75 Years Ago

March 31 1928

First mooted in the columns of the Evesham Journal on January 22nd 1887, the bridge and approach road linking the centre of Evesham and the main Birmingham-road with the road to Cheltenham and the West of England has now become a concrete fact, and was formally opened to the public on Thursday. The town was gay with flags and bunting in honour of the great occasion. Unfortunately the weather was most unpropitious and rain fell steadily during the whole of the proceedings.

50 Years Ago

March 28 1953

How best to use some of the leisure provided by the long winter evenings is a problem that many people find hard to solve. There are many solutions, however, and one of them - perhaps the most useful and satisfying of all - is on exhibition this week, free for all to see, in the window of the MEB's shop in High-street. It is a collection of the work of arts and crafts students at Evesham Evening Classes.

25 Years Ago

March 30 1978

Anyone in Wychavon who wants to see the X-certificate film "The Black Panther" will have to go out of the district to do so. Members of Wychavon district council's health committee vote by nine votes to four to ban the film from cinemas in its area. The committee went against its policy of allowing films to be shown which had been passed by the British Board of Film Censors. Mr R.J.Beckley, chairman of the council, said: "Why I would bitterly oppose this film is because we have people living not three miles away from here who are affected by it. We should think of them."