STAFF of the Kidderminster Union Workhouse lined up for this group photograph.

In the centre are the master and mistress of the workhouse, surrounded by the trustees, as well as cooks, gardeners and cleaners.

The workhouse, on the corner of Bewdley Street and Sutton Road, was later demolished to make way for Kidderminster General Hospital. Many of the inmates were old soldiers who had fought in the First World War.

They travelled the country from workhouse to workhouse as only one night’s stay was allowed in each institution.

The photograph was taken some time between 1920 and 1923 and is in the archives of Kidderminster Library.

AN exhibition sponsored by the World Wildlife Fund put this whale on show in Kidderminster Gasworks car park.

Hundreds of people visited the site in May, 1970 to see “Jonah”, which was caught and killed off the coast of Norway for scientific purposes.

It was then preserved in formalin and went on tour around Europe.

The whale was 768ft long and weighed 58 tons

MEDALS were polished for this parade on Armistice Day in the early 1930s through the streets of Stourport.

Leading the parade is standard bearer Harry Morris and the tall man on the left is thought to be Philip Robinson.

Behind Mr Morris, in the light coloured coat, is Mr Shaddock, a former president of Stourport British Legion.

On the far right, standing apart from the parade, is branch president Mr Whitworth, manager of the Holbrook Works vinegar factory.

The man in the centre of the photograph, wearing a dark suit and bowler hat is Bill Owen, manager of the Swan Hotel.