MEMBERS of the Elgar family from all over the country (and the other side of the world) visited The Elgar Birthplace Museum at Lower Broadheath recently to pay homage the great composer, their distant relative. After watching an introductory video, they looked around the modern museum and the historic birthplace cottage before gathering at the bottom of the garden to have their photograph taken next to the sculpture of Elgar.

Roy and Gill Elgar travelled from New Zealand for the family get-together. Roy said: "Our parents and my four siblings with their families live across England and Wales as well as New Zealand, so Worcester seemed a central but nicely rural place to meet, with the added incentive of Elgar roots. Worcestershire is Elgar Country, but we know that his forebears came from Kent, as did ours. So there must be some connection somewhere along the line, but we haven't been able to find out exactly where that connection is. You could say it's a relative enigma."