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29th January 2008
Wolverley Carnival Swan
Does anyone remember anything about Wolverley's white carnival swan? Mike Webster.
Contact Mike at mike_webster@wolverley.org.uk.
Contact Mike at mike_webster@wolverley.org.uk.
1st August 2007
Were you affected by the recent floods?
Give us your thoughts to make sure it is not repeated.
Come and have your say and hear comments from your local District & Parish Councillors at the Memorial Hall, Wolverley Wednesday 8th August 2007 At 7.30pm
You may also voice your opinions by contacting Ed Cheshire at the following email address yewtreecottage@talk21.com
Wolverley Village Flood Public Meeting
Were you affected by the recent floods?
Give us your thoughts to make sure it is not repeated.
Come and have your say and hear comments from your local District & Parish Councillors at the Memorial Hall, Wolverley Wednesday 8th August 2007 At 7.30pm
You may also voice your opinions by contacting Ed Cheshire at the following email address yewtreecottage@talk21.com
27th July 2007
Wolverley Village Flooding
WOLVERLEY residents are angry they did not receive more official help after seeing their homes wrecked by flooding for the second time in six weeks.
Edward Cheshire and his wife, Lynne, who have lived in their Church Bank cottage for 12 years, believe the damage will cost them £35,000 to put right.
The couple have had to rent a house, in Kidderminster, since the nearby Mill Race Brook burst its banks, on June 19, flooding the ground floor of their home.
After heavy rain, last Friday, their home and the surrounding cottages were hit for the second time.
Mr Cheshire said: "I came here at 6pm on Friday and the brook was very high up the bank, so I left my phone number with a neighbour and went for a drink with friends at the Lock pub".
"I came back an hour later and in that time the brook had risen above 2ft, up to the cottages and water was covering our front garden".
Read more on The Shuttle web site at the link below.
http://www.kidderminstershuttle.co.uk/news/ksnewslatest/display.var.1573982.0.35_000_damage_to_home.php
Edward Cheshire and his wife, Lynne, who have lived in their Church Bank cottage for 12 years, believe the damage will cost them £35,000 to put right.
The couple have had to rent a house, in Kidderminster, since the nearby Mill Race Brook burst its banks, on June 19, flooding the ground floor of their home.
After heavy rain, last Friday, their home and the surrounding cottages were hit for the second time.
Mr Cheshire said: "I came here at 6pm on Friday and the brook was very high up the bank, so I left my phone number with a neighbour and went for a drink with friends at the Lock pub".
"I came back an hour later and in that time the brook had risen above 2ft, up to the cottages and water was covering our front garden".
Read more on The Shuttle web site at the link below.
http://www.kidderminstershuttle.co.uk/news/ksnewslatest/display.var.1573982.0.35_000_damage_to_home.php
23rd April 2007
Wolverley Village Website
We are currently looking for local people to act as reporters to tell us about local events and stories.
The aim is to expand this web site to serve as an information portal for Wolverley.
If you wish to help then please contact Devron at the following email address webmaster@wolverley.org.uk.
The aim is to expand this web site to serve as an information portal for Wolverley.
If you wish to help then please contact Devron at the following email address webmaster@wolverley.org.uk.
12th October 2006
Wolverley School Meals
Mike Webster, a keen local historian, has written an article about school meals in Wolverley. Below is an quote from it and a link to download the full article.
Today we see and hear so much on our TV’s about children eating healthy nutritional food in our schools. TV chef, Jamie Oliver recently started a campaign calling for better meals to be served in schools throughout the country. I wonder what children today would say about the dinners served in Wolverley nearly 70 years ago. Could these children really have been the very first to eat school dinners in this country so many years ago?
On Saturday 2nd December 1939, the Kidderminster Shuttle reported;
“Kidderminster Rural District Council was informed at its meeting at Land Oak House, on Tuesday afternoon, that the system of communal feeding at Wolverley Elementary School had been responsible for less evacuees returning home from that parish than any other part of the rural district.
According to the Sanitary Inspector (Mr. R. S. Porter), the scheme was believed to be the first of its kind in the country, and certainly the first in Worcestershire.”
http://www.wolverley.org.uk/wolverley-village-files/wolverley-school-meals.pdf
Article © Mike Webster 2006.
Today we see and hear so much on our TV’s about children eating healthy nutritional food in our schools. TV chef, Jamie Oliver recently started a campaign calling for better meals to be served in schools throughout the country. I wonder what children today would say about the dinners served in Wolverley nearly 70 years ago. Could these children really have been the very first to eat school dinners in this country so many years ago?
On Saturday 2nd December 1939, the Kidderminster Shuttle reported;
“Kidderminster Rural District Council was informed at its meeting at Land Oak House, on Tuesday afternoon, that the system of communal feeding at Wolverley Elementary School had been responsible for less evacuees returning home from that parish than any other part of the rural district.
According to the Sanitary Inspector (Mr. R. S. Porter), the scheme was believed to be the first of its kind in the country, and certainly the first in Worcestershire.”
http://www.wolverley.org.uk/wolverley-village-files/wolverley-school-meals.pdf
Article © Mike Webster 2006.
