100 Years Ago March 28, 1908 On Saturday morning many of the inhabitants of Stow-on-the-Wold were attracted from their beds by the ringing of the fire-bell. The scene of the burning was soon discovered to be an old historic house in Park-street, formerly known as Porch House. It appears some men employed on the railway are lodging there. They got up early and lighted a fire, using some wood which they had brought from the railway. The chimney caught fire, and soon smoke was issuing from various parts of the roof. The brigade, under Capt Hollis, was quickly in attendance. The engine was vigorously worked and water was thrown on the burning beam, and very soon it was considered to be extinguished.

75 Years Ago March 25, 1933 The Gloucestershire Agricultural Education Sub-Committee are taking steps to organise a Pig Recording Society for the county. At a meeting of the Gloucestershire Agricultural Committee, Mr J P Terry said it was felt that the success of the Pig Re-Organisation Scheme largely depended upon finding the right type of pig and that could best be done by keeping records of pigs and litters in the same manner as was done for the Milk Recording Societies. Another association to be formed is a Cotswold Cheese Association, which is being organised by the Dairying Instructress (Miss Colnett) whose object is to ensure utilisation of surplus milk in the production of a high quality uniform cheese.

50 Years Ago March 28, 1958 Much of the annual parish meeting at Moreton-in-Marsh was taken up with objections to a wall that Gloucestershire county council proposes to build between the High Street car park and main road at Moreton. "The wide High Street is what we all look at and like," said Mrs M Jelly. "We don't want it cluttered up with a lot of rubbish." Miss V Weaver, who collected a petition against the wall signed by 850 people, said mothers were worried about children playing on the wall and falling off into the traffic. Mr A E Williams, chairman of the parish council, which has approved the High Street scheme, said they had been trying for 14 years for a pedestrian crossing and it now looked as though it was going to materialise at last. People using the crossing had got to have somewhere to start from and somewhere to "land" and this required the provision of a pavement of some kind.