Our History
The Paper was founded in 1981 when Alec and Gee Nelmes placed an advert in the Evesham Journal for volunteers to meet at the Angel Hotel together with some sound engineers from Wood Norton. The trials for the readers were held in the recording studios at Wood Norton. The funds to purchase the equipment needed were raised by Alec and Gee through coffee mornings, raffles and the generosity of local businesses.
The first recording studio was a very cramped room at the rear of the Admag Office where Peter Smith opticians is now based. In those early days recordings were made to tapes with the recording engineers having to cut out any mistakes and splice the tape back together. It then had to be recorded on to a small cassette which the copying machine could read. This and the copying process was very time consuming as it was done in real-time and the copier could only do one tape at a time. Today we record at No8 on a computer and then copy this to USB memory sticks in Pershore Town Hall – 8 at a time.
