100 years ago - June 7, 1902

HENRY Ingles, a labourer of Wickhamford, was summoned for being drunk at Bengeworth on May 24. Defendant pleaded guilty. PC Dainty said just before midnight, while on duty on Bench Hill, he found defendant lying on the road side. He picked him up and found he was helplessly drunk. He took him to the cabin at Wickhamford, unlocked the door, and put him inside. There were 15 previous convictions. He was fined 5s including costs, or seven days.

75 years ago

June 4, 1927

THE filming of the exterior scenes for "The King's Highway", which is being produced by Mr Sinclair Hill for the Stoll Film Company, is bringing fame to the town and district, the hospitable welcome given to the players having found appreciation in unexpected quarters. In "The Referee" of Sunday last a treble column article was headed "Evesham and England" and spoke of the fact that Mr Sinclair Hill and the company had been busy in and around the Vale.

50 years ago

June 7, 1952

RAIN marred the first Anglican Pilgrimage to be made to the site of Evesham Abbey on Saturday, when a gathering of some 500 people attended Evensong at All Saints Church instead of at the site of the Abbey, as had originally been planned. Onlookers lining the High Street were forced to shelter in doorways as the procession of robed clergy and representatives of local church organisations, led by the Bishop of Worcester, Dr W Wilson Cash, made its way through the town to the church.

25 years ago

June 9, 1977

EVESHAM'S carnival on Saturday promises to be one of the biggest and best the town has seen. Already 70 floats have entered for the procession which this year will be led by a marching band from Ronkswood in Worcester, and will include at least three other bands. "I think there will be plenty of music on other floats as well," Mr Norman White, carnival committee chairman, said on Tuesday.