Redditch News, Worcestershire News, - From The Redditch Advertiser

100 years ago - June 5, 1909

9:22am Monday 1st June 2009

THE third annual sports day and fete promoted by the Studley men’s Adult School was held in the grounds adjoining Studley Holt Farm by permission of Mr J Green on Monday.

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THREE men working between premises in Grove Street and Queen Street had a narrow escape from injury, and possibly death, when part of an old factory collapsed into the yard where they had been working a few minutes previously.

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25 years ago - June 6, 1984

9:24am Monday 1st June 2009

MILLIONS of sports enthusiasts from all over the world will be turning their attentions to Los Angeles this summer for the Olympic Games.

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100 years ago - May 30, 1909

10:02am Tuesday 26th May 2009

THE Redditch Town Band have only recently commenced their series of very popular open-air concerts for this season and already complaints have reached us from many quarters of the nuisance caused by youths racing and shouting around the Church Green while the musical selections are being played.

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50 years ago - May 29, 1959

10:03am Tuesday 26th May 2009

STUDLEY Parish Council are to make nominations for a resident Justice of the Peace in the village.

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25 years ago - May 27, 1984

10:03am Tuesday 26th May 2009

LABOUR leader Michael Foot urged voters to pin a red rosette on Redditch at the polling booths during a hectic town centre walkabout.

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100 years ago - May 23, 1909

10:47am Wednesday 20th May 2009

THE annual meeting of the Webheath, Foxly-diate, Headless Cross and District Hospital Society was held at the Rose and Crown Hotel, Webheath, on Tuesday.

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50 years ago - May 21, 1959

10:47am Wednesday 20th May 2009

PRESSED by Mr James Dance, MP for Redd-itch and Bromsgrove, to make a statement in the House of Commons last week about the Govern-ment’s policy on the expansion of Birmingham into the Green Belt area of Wythall and Solihull, Mr Henry Brooke, minister of housing and local government, declined to do so on the grounds that it would pre-judge any decision he might have to make on a planning application for the district later in the year.