Stoke Works News Today

Alliance will deliver upgrades to rail lines and stations around Birmingham and nearby towns

THE STORY of how Bromsgrove's three-tier school system was introduced is the lead article in this year's annual Bromsgrove Rousler.

Trains from Foregate Street and Shrub Hill impacted by unexploded device

AN unexploded wartime bomb which disrupted rail services has now been dealt with safely.

We Shall Remember Them…even if they are not from our area and we know little about them. And so it was that a group of people gathered in a Worcestershire and paid their respects to a Black Country man they know only from an old newspaper cutting and a ‘missing,’ broken flagstone. For 120 years Lance Corporal Michael Kelly’s body has lain in the churchyard after the 39-year-old Boer War veteran died in the Mount Convalescent Hospital at Hanbury, outside Bromsgrove. He had no gre...

We Shall Remember Them…even if they are not from our area and we know little about them. And so it was that a group of people gathered in Hanbury Church and paid their respects to a man they know only from an old Bromsgrove Messenger cutting and a ‘missing,’ broken flagstone. For 120 years Lance Corporal Michael Kelly’s body has lain in the churchyard after the 39-year-old Boer War veteran died in the Mount Convalescent Hospital. He had no great connections with the village. It ...