100 years ago - April 5, 1902

ALL the services throughout Holy Week and Easter were attended by large congregations. The three-hours service on Good Friday was conducted by the Rev O P Wardell-Yerburgh, vicar of Tewkesbury. The church was crowded in the evening, when the choir, assisted by the Church Choral Society gave a good rendering of the first part of Sir John Stanier's St Mary Magdalen.

75 years ago

April 2 1927

WILLIAM Lloyd, a labourer of no fixed abode, was brought up in custody charged with begging alms in Bridge Street, Evesham, on March 26. He pleaded guilty. PC Lane said at about 2.40pm he saw the prisoner in Bridge Street and saw him enter five shops during the 20 minutes he was under observation. He took him back to one shop and the lady said he had asked for coppers. He was sent to prison for 14 days hard labour.

50 years ago

April 5 1952

A SPECIAL meeting of Evesham Town Council's general purposes committee agreed on Wednesday evening that British Road Services at Evesham should be allowed to use part of Merstow Green until the end of the present spring cabbage season for loading produce on to long-distance lorries. Two lorries with trailers will be loaded from 3pm to 6pm on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday of each week, and the charge for the concession will be £1 a day.

25 years ago

April 7 1977

CONSCIENCE caught up with an American woman who took a free ride on the train from Paddington to Evesham nearly 40 years ago. An envelope with a New York postmark arrived at the station this week with a letter from the woman stating she failed to pay when she travelled on the route in the early forties. A cheque for three dollars was also enclosed. A station spokesman believed the fare was about 15 shillings in 1940.