VOL. xvin. (i) EXCURSION-DROITWICH AND STOKE I9 



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EXCURSION TO DROITWICH AND STOKE WORKS. 



Tuesday, May 14th, 1912. 



Director: L. Richardson. 



(Report by L. Richardson and W. Thompson). 



As usual there was a ffood muster of Members for the first Field Meeting 

 of tht year, andln a^^ordance with tradition the weather left nothmg to be 

 desired Each year Mr Richardson, the Honorary Secretary manages to 

 discover new ground for the Club's operations, and the members are fully 

 consJous of the trouble he takes and the discrimination with which he seeks 

 to broaden the field of inquiry and research. 



Those present included :— Mr W. R. Carles. C.M.G. (Vice-presi_dent), Mr 

 L. Ri'cS^a^llontHon. Secretary). Vei. Archdeacon ScobellRev^Cheesem^^^ 

 Messrs F. H. Bretherton, C. Brown, O. A. Brown, J. M. Collett G. M. Currie, 

 rSes Curtis T Daniels, J. M. Dixon, T. S. Elhs, O. H. Fowler, B. G. 

 G k F Hannam-a"k, H. Haigh, G. W. Hedley, H. H Knight, H. Hume- 

 Rothei-y E. Lawrence. A. S. Montgomrey, F. J. Myl^us W. Margetson, F. T. 

 Pearce A. E. W. Paine, E. C. Sewell, A. E. Smith, W. Thompson, etc. 



Droitwich was not unknown to some of the Members of the party, for 

 its famous brine baths have a special attraction for suffering humanity and 

 stand high in the estimation of the medical faculty. This is supposed to 

 have becni the Roman Salma. (salt city), many Roman remains having been 

 found It is not a large town, the population bemg only 4.201, but 't is one 

 oTthe oldest boroughs in the kingdom. In pre-Roman tunes two great roads 

 OT ''^iltways ■■ led from Droitwich-one to the coast of Lincolnshire and the 

 other to the coast of Hampshire. 



Droitwich owes much to the late Mr John Corbett. The salt industry 

 furnished h.m with much of this world's goods, and in return he spent largely 

 on ? he town and by his enterprise contributed not a little to its prosperity. 

 \s n Warwickshire, so in Worcestershire, half-timbered black and white 

 iiouies arJT striking feature, and some of the buildings in Droitwich are 

 exceptionally picturesque. 



The Members first paid a visit to the Experimental Gardens maintamed 

 by tl e ^^•orcestersllire Education Committee, and were avourab y impressed 

 not only by the clean condition of the land, but by the skilful manner in 

 whicT Le fruit trees had been pruned, and the prospect of a heavy crop. 



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