Mike Pryce

Martyn Moore, who was for many years one of Worcester’s best known ladies’ hairdressers, has died at the age of 75.

FORTY FOUR years ago, on a May Bank Holiday evening,  two teams of masked SAS soldiers emerged from the shadows and smashed their way into the Iranian Embassy in London and into the full glare of national publicity. Within 17 minutes, every one broadcast live on TV, they had released 18 people held hostage by six armed gunmen, five of which were shot dead.

Taking a look back at Elgar High School as it became Elgar Technology College at the turn of the millennium.

FOR many years, within living memory, the centre of Worcester used to be entertained by the antics of a character born George Webb but better known by his nickname of Chicken George. About mid-morning he would emerge into the High Street and prance around to the music of the buskers.

IF there was a competition to find the ugliest building in Worcester I can think of a couple of entries for a start.

FOR those of an alcoholic leaning there are pub crawls and pub crawls, but few can match Worcester’s seriously mis-named challenge The Cross to Shrub Hill Run. Because a “run” it most certainly was not.

IF you were feeling a bit squiffy or even worse in the early 1800s there was no popping along to the local branch of Boots or Lloyds Pharmacy.

RICHARD Underwood, a member of one of Worcester’s best known business families, has died at the age of 62 .

AS 1902 dawned and with Father Christmas barely unhitched the reindeer,  a white bearded clergyman arrived in Worcester who was thankfully better at religion than choosing real estate.

NEW entries are being made all the time to Worcester’s History and Heritage Calendar of happenings in and around the city from the tenth century up to the present day and on the first Saturday of each month throughout 2023 we are going to give a taster of what was going on.