CAN Memory Lane readers answer a couple of posers I have been set but can't answer?

Mrs Joan Smith of Tudor Way, Worcester, has written wondering if I can settle a friendly argument she is having with her brother. She is convinced from that the former racecourse grandstand at Pitchcroft collapsed at some stage, possibly in the 1940s. "People don't believe me, so I would like to pinpoint the date if anyone else can remember it happening," writes Mrs Smith.

All I can discover is that the Grandstand Hotel was demolished in the mid-1970s and that a large sum of money had to be spent in the 1980s tackling the "concrete cancer" which struck the new racecourse Grandstand.

The other enquiry I have had is from Mrs Philomena Bond of St Clement's Close, Worcester, who writes that in 1969, her son Philip, while a pupil of Christopher Whitehead Boys' School, was presented with the Richard Hills Memorial Prize as the best Worcester school musician of the year.

He was taught as a boy to play the piano by the late Edgar Day, the popular and much respected assistant organist of Worcester Cathedral. Philip is now a teacher of music at a school in Birmingham, and his mother and family would dearly like to know who was the Richard Hill or Hills to whose memory the annual music prize was awarded.

Any Memory Lane readers who are able to answer the posers set by Mrs Smith and Mrs Bond are asked to contact Mike Grundy at the Evening News.

n I have received a very positive response from readers to my recent plea for information on the fate of the fine Nicholson Organ which graced Worcester's former Public Hall, demolished in the mid-1960s. I will bring you the detailed information soon in Memory Lane.