Obsolete council notice, Pershore
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Obsolete council notice, Pershore
Image: © Jaggery Taken: 16 Nov 2014
On the east side of Station Road, viewed in November 2014. The fading notice was issued by the County Council of Hereford and Worcester, which was created on April 1st 1974 following the Local Government Act 1972. The new county included the former administrative county of Herefordshire and most of Worcestershire (except Halesowen, Stourbridge and Warley, which became part of the West Midlands, and the County Borough of Worcester). The intention was to increase local government efficiency, since the two counties were among England's smaller and least populous counties, particularly after the same act moved some of Worcestershire's most urbanised areas to the West Midlands. Predictably, it aroused much resentment and opposition in Herefordshire, which regarded it as a takeover by Worcestershire. The County Council of Hereford and Worcester was abolished in 1998 and reverted, with some border adjustments, to the two separate historic counties of Herefordshire and Worcestershire.
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Image Location
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52.123988
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-2.075032