100 years ago

Poultry, pigeons and prizes, rats with reputations, mice and medals, and feathers, fur and fanciers, will figure at the show of the Malvern and District Feather Association's Exhibition - the first, by the way - which will take place at the Assembly Rooms on the 19th instant. Sir Henry Lambert is the president, there is an influential list of vice-presidents, including Lord Deerhurst and Mr Alfred Baldwin MP, and the committee are, without exception, men who know their work, while the hon secretary, Mr Samuel Griffiths, is an energetic officer who is leaving no stone unturned to ensure success. Malvern News, January 7, 1904.

A collision between two traps occurred near Temple Court, Bosbury, on Thursday evening but fortunately no-one was injured. Mr George Watkins, postman, was returning to Ledbury Post Office from the Frome and Bosbury district, his trap being lighted up as usual. Mr Ray Whistindale was driving a trap in the opposite direction and, it is stated, he had no light. There was a violent collision. Ledbury Free Press, January 10, 1905.

50 years ago

Malvern Urban Council agreed on Tuesday that more than five acres known as Langlands sports ground be sold to Malvern Town Football Club at a price to be fixed by the district valuer on certain conditions. These include the right of the council to buy back the land if the club should cease to require it for the purpose of a sports ground and the prohibition of its use for anything other than games, athletics, exhibitions, fetes and shows.

Malvern Gazette, January 7, 1954.

Because the Ministry of Housing has stated that the contract was higher than the department was prepared to approve, Ledbury Urban Council were asked to economise in the construction of eight flats in Albert Road, Ledbury. But Coun P C Simm, chairman of the housing committee, objected to certain proposed changes in order to save £173. Ledbury Reporter, January 14, 1955.

25 years ago

The marina at Upton-upon-Severn has been taken over in a deal costing more than £600,000. The Upton site has been taken over by the Yule Catto Group, a growing concern in an industry largely dominated by private ownership of individual boat bases. Yule Catto already own Hartford Marina in Cambridgeshire and another in Cobbs Quay, Dorset. They now have the Upton marina on a 200-year lease.

Malvern Gazette, January 10, 1980.

HMS Ledbury was launched from the Woolston Shipyard, Southampton, which belongs to her builders, Vosper Thornycroft (UK) Ltd. The Hunt Class glass reinforced mine countermeasures vessel is 60 metres long with a beam of 14 metres and displaces 625 tonnes. Ledbury Reporter, January 10, 1980.