11:42am Wednesday 11th April 2007
A £15m plan to construct a subterranean electric railway along Bristol Road from Rubery into New Street station and beyond was receiving consideration. The trains would travel at 60mph and take 15 minutes to reach the city from Rubery. All the stations except Rubery would be below ground.
PLANS were being made for the visit to Worcestershire of the Queen and Prince Philip. The tour would start at Hagley station and the royal couple would be met by Mr LJ Boffey, chairman of Bromsgrove Rural District Council, Lord and Lady Cobham, selected railway staff, four parish councillors and 50 others. Roads around the station would be closed from early morning and the council urged residents to put up decorations and bunting to welcome the royal couple.
FORTY seven members of Stoke Works Darby and Joan Club enjoyed a coach trip to Evesham to see the blossom. They were joined by 15 members from the Wychbold club. On their return they were treated to tea in the ICI room at Stoke Works.
SATURDAY'S return of the Harkaway Club to its pre-war course at Chaddesley Corbett proved popular with point-to-point enthusiasts. The club's 34th annual hunt races attracted a large crowd, despite petrol rationing, who were thrilled when local jockey Martin Tate rode one of his father's horses to victory and commiserated with Miss Dawn Palethorpe when she was narrowly defeated in the Ladies' race.
THE giant ICI company, which owned the Stoke salt works, was to sink test boreholes for brine at Sunnyhill in Wychbold. Sunnyhill was the old dower house of the Amphlett family and was situated on the corner of Chequers Lane and Shaw Lane. The tests would show the extent of the salt' field.
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