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2007 marks the celebration of a number of special anniversaries, including the Record Office's 60th. Between 11th - 23rd June 2007 we asked you to tell us about any special anniversaries you were celebrating.

Although the period for the blog has passed, if there is anything you would like to share, we would still like to hear about it.

Share your memories and thoughts on our ‘big blog’ thebiganniversaryblog@worcestershire.gov.uk.

2007 is:

30 years since the Queen’s Silver Jubilee
60 years since Worcestershire Record Office was opened
60 years since the Queen married Prince Philip
150 years since Elgar’s birth
200 years since the start of the Abolition of the Slave Trade in the British Empire
? years since ? – What are you celebrating this year? (Find out what on our responses page)

Street Party for Silver Jubilee in Worcester.

30 years ago street parties were held across Britain to celebrate the Queen’s Silver Jubilee.

Did you take part in a street party? Did you celebrate by painting the union flag on anything? Let us know what you remember.

Read what people have said about this event on the responses page.

To celebrate the Silver Jubilee the owners of this racing car painted the union flag on the bonnet.

The disafforestation map of Malvern Chase, 1632, chosen by two people as their favourite archive.

60 years ago Worcestershire Record Office was created to look after Worcestershire’s documentary past.

How has the Record Office helped you with your research? Have you found out anything surprising? Do you have a favourite document? See some others people’s favourites here.

Read what people have said about this event on the responses page.

60 years ago Worcester also suffered one of the worst floods in it’s history. Do you remember it? Have you been told stories of it by friends or relatives?

150 years ago Edward Elgar was born in Broadheath.

Do you have a favourite piece of music by Elgar? Does his music mean a lot to you?

Read what people have said about this event on the responses page.

Taken from Berrow’s Worcester Journal Pictorial Supplement, Sat 3rd March 1934. Worcestershire History Centre

Stanley Baldwin and
Sir Edward Elgar outside
Worcester Cathedral.

Worcester Herald, 21 March 1807

200 years ago an Act to Abolish slavery in the British Empire was passed.

Although this was not the end of slavery and subsequent acts needed to be passed, this year is being marked as an opportunity to reflect on slave trade and the ramifications.

Were your ancestors slaves? What does this year’s commemorations mean to you?

Read what people have said about this event on the responses page.

Worcester Herald, 28 March 1807

Worcester Herald, 25 April 1807

This is how Worcestershire people found out about the passing of the Act in the Worcester Herald, available to view at Worcestershire History Centre. The debates were reported in the pages of the newspaper in the preceding months and news from Jamaica was reported afterwards too.

You may have your own celebrations that mean a lot to you. Perhaps a special birthday, wedding anniversary or a christening.

Read about personal memories on the responses page.

Let us know your memories and thoughts by e-mailing thebiganniversaryblog@worcestershire.gov.uk

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