Saving the Worcester newspaper archives from the skip
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Saving the Worcester newspaper archives from the skip

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Wednesday, 10 March 2027, 19:30 – 21:00

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Halls of Bromyard, Bromyard, Hr7 4LL

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19:30 – 21:00

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A talk by Chris Wilkinson Telling the story of how the Worcester Civic society members, after a tip off saved over 250 bound Berrows journals dating from 1801 to the 1990s-120 boxes of cuttings and photographs-Well over a million black & white and colour negatives from 1968 onwards and 1500 glass plate negatives dated from 1936 to the mid-1960s. If CS members had not acted quickly all this precious archive would have been thrown away and lost forever, with lots of local images from the collection featuring scenes from all around old Worcester with emphasis on the 1989 Worcester carnival, floods at Evesham in 1947, Pershore Carnival and images & news from Bromyard.

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