TRAMPS seeking a night's board and lodging at Bromsgrove's Workhouse in Birmingham Road would not in future need a police ticket verifying that they were a genuine and deserving case. The practice was being discontinued because police were too busy.

PEACE services were held in Bromsgrove and Droitwich Spa and villages surrounding the two towns following the end of the war in South Africa. In Bromsgrove, a procession, including representatives from the town council, Court Leet, police and fire brigade, marched through the streets en route to St John's. In Droitwich the main civic service concluded with the singing of the National Anthem.

AN idea to erect a memorial to the ten Bromsgrove men who had lost their lives either by being killed in action or through disease fighting the Boers in South Africa had been put forward. It could be either in the parish church or cemetery and the cost need not be great, the Messenger said.

SHOPS in Bromsgrove would close for two days during the forthcoming Coronation celebrations. Instead of sending his majesty the traditional loyal address from the people of Bromsgrove, it had been decided to erect a flagpole on the Town Hall instead. There had long been a need for somewhere in the town centre to fly a flag when the need arose. And as had happened on previous royal occasions, candles would burn in the windows of homes and shops in the High Street.

JOSEPH Cox, a travelling showman from Blackheath, was given 14 days' hard labour at Worcester Jail by Bromsgrove magistrates who found him guilty of stealing a 1/- (5p) knife from the tap-room at the Sampson pub in Worcester Street.