ECOLOGY IN A COUNTRY TOWN

THOUGHTS of Pershore and dirty industry don't really tie in together: not in the guide book sense. The visitor to this Worcestershire town is more likely to remember its square‐towered abbey, with pre‐Norman antecedents; its main street of pleasant shops with no predominance of multiples; the nearby Avon, where most of Birmingham's population seems to be afloat or fishing on any fine day, and surrounding green meadow‐lands and villages, such as the quaintly‐name Wyre Piddle.