Kidder Times And Shuffle

A Memory of Kidderminster.

The old Comberton Hotel is only just visible at the margin right; owned by Len Grove who turned it into flats and opened a betting office on the ground floor and was a well known personality in the town. The shops were all occupied and business's flourished up and down the hill...behind the cameraman, of course, the station, which was never better than engulfed in steam, a tradition still to be witnessed thanks to the Severn Valley Railway....the town below bristled, all year round...like a wild west frontiers town,sometimes,at night...when the pubs turned out and young men joined the rut...
The hill though was mostly quiet,most of the time and fed the town its visitors as they flooded in by road or train, en route to Stourport and Bewdley...the poor's resorts.