100 Years Ago, July 10, 1909 (From Bromsgrove Advertiser)

100 Years Ago, July 10, 1909

9:23am Wednesday 8th July 2009

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GEORGE Crowther, Arthur Nicklin and Edward Harrison, all aged 16, and from Friar Street, Droitwich, appeared before the Spa’s petty sessions charged with playing pitch and toss for pennies. Pc Potter, in plain clothes, had spotted the youths playing the game near St Peter’s Church Fields. Magistrates found the lads guilty and ordered them to pay a fine of 2/6 each with 4/- costs, or in default seven days’ jail at Worcester. They were given until Saturday to pay.

A PLAN to tar spray the main road through Rubery in a bid to stop the menace of dust being throw up by vehicles looked doomed, to the disappointment of residents living alongside. The county council was to pay half the cost with the district authority paying the remainder. But now it seemed that the district council was not legally empowered to make such payments. The wet summer had so far eased the dust problem, which was being made worse by the rise in the number of motor vehicles. Councils elsewhere in the country, who were trying the tar method, were reporting it was costing in the region of £30 per mile.

NEWS of the death of the former popular vicar of Bromsgrove, the Rev E Vine Hall, at Oxford, was received with sadness in the town. During his 15-year spell he had made 3,000 sermons, attended 1,600 meetings and made 10,000 parish visits. Such was his popularity, especially among the working classes, that when he retired in 1906, due to ill health, he was presented with a purse containing 70 guineas. He had been a prime mover in setting up the popular, cheap Saturday night concerts in Bromsgrove.

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