100 years ago

It is of great importance to the Malverns that the council's attention should be directed to keeping and making the roads as wide as possible, many of which are much too narrow for the kind of traffic now in use, and will be more in use almost every day. Motor cars are very uncomfortable to many who drive horses, and are even dangerous in causing them to take fright. Malvern Gazette, January 2, 1903.

The many friends of Tom Cubberley, who was with Mr Wilson when Master of the Ledbury Hounds, will regret to hear that he has met with a serious accident. He is now huntsman to the Cheshire Hounds with Mr Wilson, and on Saturday week he came to grief while jumping an open ditch with rather high banks. He broke three ribs. Ledbury Free Press, January 6, 1903.

50 years ago

Malvern bells rang in 1953 - Coronation Year - in joyous fashion and it proved to be the gayest New Year's Eve to be celebrated locally for many years. Most hotels and clubs and institutions held parties, and in homes, where there were smaller private gatherings, television and the radio programmes were popular. In several churches, there were watch night services at which hymns appropriate to the season were sung. Malvern Gazette, January 2, 1953.

Coronation decorations for the town were discussed at Monday's meeting of Ledbury Urban Council, when it was stated that quotations had been received for the provision of hanging baskets of flowers for the Market House, to be delivered a week before the Coronation. The Ledbury Reporter, January 9, 1953.

25 years ago

A lottery is to be run to help finance this year's Mal- vern Festival, now confirmed to take place for three weeks from Monday, May 22 to Sunday, June 11. Doubts about whether the festival could go ahead on the scale planned were resolved at a recent meeting of the organisers. Malvern Gazette, January 5, 1978.

The county council's road traffic panel will be visiting Ledbury on Wednesday, January 25, to see the town's traffic blackspots and to hear the views of the town council and other organisations regarding possible solutions to the problems. The Ledbury Reporter, January 5, 1978.