100 years ago

Taken for granted that the weather remains in its present happy quarter at the close of the present week, we shall have experienced two weeks of what may rightly be termed "tropical" weather. Many people who have learned the old saying that "England is an ever changing climate" hesitated as to the saneness of donning their light attire, but its continuance has fully warranted the step many, somewhat at a risk, took at the outset. Hundreds of citizens as well as visitors have been seen in the public gardens or on the Beacon heights basking in the sunshine. Malvern News, May 31, 1903.

50 years ago

For the second time, Malvern Male Voice Choir narrowly missed winning the cup they sought in the Cheltenham Competitive Music Festival - coming second in class by only one point. Even to come second in this class was an achievement, for the general level of the singing was such that the adjudicator, Mr Harold Noble, well known as a baritone singer, teacher, composer and member of the BBC's music staff, said: "Rarely have I heard such a high standard of singing from small male voice choirs." Malvern Gazette, May 29, 1953.

Ledbury's ambitious Coronation Day festivities brought what was probably the biggest invasion of visitors into town in its history. By general consent, the carnival parade was one of the biggest ever seen. There were 139 individual entries. It is believed that there was a steady crowd of about 6,000 most of the evening, the components of which were constantly changing, as people came for a short time to see the fun, then departed for other places. Ledbury Reporter, June 5, 1953.

25 years ago

A beautifully constructed literary montage of the late Poet Laureate John Masefield's association with Herefordshire was assembled in his home town by pupils and staff of the Grammar School, on the eve of the opening of the exhibition of his life and works at the Barrett Browning Institute. Ledbury Reporter, June 1, 1978.

The Terrace Bar at Malvern Winter Gardens is rapidly becoming a "venue for layabouts and some of the less desirable citizens to come and put their feet on the tables," according to the resort manager. He said the Terrace Bar was becoming a target for graffiti. He suggested that the under-used upper terrace buffet counter should be converted into a bar with two-thirds of the upper terrace glassed in. Malvern Gazette, June 1, 1978.