100 years ago

Dr Dixey is not going to let the idea of rifle clubs fall without a struggle. It is never an easy task to rouse enthusiasm in Malvern, but he means to do it. On Monday, he presided over a Wyche smoking concert and offered to present the Institute with a Winchester rifle. From the remarks which followed it may be gathered that the Wyche folk quite appreciate the idea of rifle shooting or air-gun shooting, and would immediately see as to the feasibility of procuring a range. Malvern Gazette, November 17, 1905.

A very fine display of the Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) was seen at Wellington Heath on Wednesday evening, November 15, between 6pm and 9.30pm, the spectacle being especially brilliant from 8.30pm to 9pm. The sky to the north appeared to be of an intense peacock blue. Ledbury Free Press, November 21, 1905.

50 years ago

Viscount Malvern, formerly Sir Geoffrey Huggins, Prime Minister of Rhodesia, who on Thursday next will receive the honorary degree of doctor of law from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother acting as Chancellor of London University, is to visit his old school, Malvern College. He and Lady Malvern will be the guests of the Headmaster and Mrs Lindsay and of the Old Malvernian Society. Malvern Gazette, November 18, 1955.

Being charged by a pain-maddened elephant in the African shrub-lands is the type of incident one associates with adventure stories. But this actually happened to Ledbury-born Douglas Edwards, a plant manager running a construction unit in Tanganyika. Ledbury Reporter, November 25, 1955.

25 years ago

More old quarrying areas in the Malvern Hills - at the Gullet and Hollybush - are to be given back to the public. Gullet, at Swinyard Hill, is owned jointly by the Eastnor Castle Estate Company and the Church Commissioners. Hollybush, at Midsummer Hill, is wholly owned by the estate company. Opening up the Gullet would help to take the pressure off such popular beauty spots as British Camp, the Wyche and the Worcestershire Beacon. Malvern Gazette, November 20, 1980.

A group of Ledbury people were last night flying over the channel in a bid to bring the first bottle of Beaujolais Nouveau to the west of England. Among them was Bob Evans, of the Applejack Bistro in The Homend, in a plane piloted by farmer Eliot Rhys Thomas, of Much Marcle. Ledbury Reporter, November 20, 1980.