DESPITE a return to top coat' weather, the start of the cricket season was not far off. In Bromsgrove the arrival of the town club's new professional, Stevens, was eagerly looked forward to. He would come with an impressive record. Last season, when playing for Denbighshire, he took all ten wickets for one run. There was good news too regarding Bromsgrove's new ground in New Road. To date £1,250 had been spent on it leaving only £400 to pay on the mortgage. The committee had already raised £17 toward the next repayment of £50.
DRINK and its many related problems gave impetus to the formation of a branch of the National British Women's Temperance Association in Bromsgrove. The members wore a distinctive white ribbon. Mrs Gibbins, from Barnt Green, had been elected as its president and now the search was on for volunteers to carry out the association's work.
DROITWICH as a health spa was featured in the national magazine Vanity Fair. The curative properties of its waters had been discovered in 1832 during an outbreak of cholera. The water, the magazine said, was ten to 12 times the strength of sea water. The area around the town still retained large areas of woodland, remnants of the former Feckenham Forest. In parts of these woods, the article claimed, were clearings in which were still half timbered cottages dating back to Tudor times.
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