50 Years Ago, January 25, 1958

2:06pm Thursday 17th January 2008

THE final service in the wooden St Chad's Church in Rubery was about to take place. It had served the district for 62 years and was now about to be demolished to make way for a new church to be built on the site at a cost of £39,446. Since 1895, 700 weddings had been conducted there and about 100 couples, some from as far away as the south of England, were planning to return to Rubery for a reunion service.

NEARLY 200 old folk in Stoke Prior and Stoke Works enjoyed their third annual village party held in the brush works canteen. They enjoyed a meal of ham, tongue and chicken followed by jelly and mince pies. An entertainment followed and a home movie about Africa, shot by LG Harris, the brush works chairman. At the conclusion all enjoyed a cup of tea liberally laced with whisky before setting off for home.

HEALTH chiefs failed to agree to a scheme to provide more twin beds in private rooms at Bromsgrove General Hospital. Presently there were 13. Many private patients preferred the company of their husbands or wives while in hospital.

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