100 Years Ago November 19, 1910 The Evesham and District Market Gardeners and Fruit Growers’ Association, the annual meeting of which was held on Monday evening, seems to be in a fairly prosperous condition, with a balance of over £30 on the right side. Mr C H Jones was elected secretary and, in thanking the association for appointing him, he said it was necessary that they should have a large body of members; he saw no reason why they should not bring the numbers up to four or five hundred. We quite agree with Mr Jones. The stronger the association becomes, the more good will it be able to perform. It is only by means of a big combination that the gardening industry can make its full influence felt; and as there will no doubt be many occasions in the near future on which the gardeners of the Vale of Evesham ought to speak out in no uncertain terms, we hope Mr Jones will do his best to induce some hundreds of his fellow gardeners to join the association.

75 Years Ago November 23, 1935 A meeting of the Pershore branch of the National Farmers’ Union was held at the Angel Hotel on Wednesday evening. Mr H J Harris (chairman) presided. Concerning the reduced railway carriage charges, Mr H Ginn said there had been two or three conferences with representatives of the railway companies and the whole matter had been thoroughly gone into. There had been a concession from the old standard which, judging by the figures, he thought was very substantial. The National Farmers’ Union transport officers had received the whole of the rates from all stations in the county to practically all the great marketing towns and cities to which they sent produce. Mr Donald Blore stated that application could be made to the railway companies for any other stations which were not included in the list.

50 Years Ago November 25, 1960 Criticism of the alleged inconvenience caused to residents of Bishampton by the manner in which the village was being sewered was made at Tuesday’s meeting of Pershore Rural District Council. Mr J Cole Ambrose said the state of affairs at Bishampton had to be seen to be believed. “Never in my life have I seen anything so disgraceful,” he declared. “It’s deplorable to think what will happen when they begin to sewer Pershore. The present position at Bishampton is one ‘holy mess: “there is absolutely no method” . He expressed the hope that the council would insist on every possible penalty that could be put on the contractors for the “disgraceful way in which the people of Bishampton have suffered”. He said after seeing what happened when a sewer was laid at Cropthorne one would have thought that the council would have exercised more supervision.