100 years ago

THE public examination in bankruptcy of William Henry Buck, general smith, of Guarlford, took place at the Worcester Bankruptcy Court. Questioned by the Official Receiver (Mr Luke J Sharp), debtor said that when his father died without a will, he took to the estate, which was just about solvent. He had crippled himself by overstocking himself with agricultural machinery, which he could not sell, with the result that he was driven to borrow money as long ago as 1902. At the end of 1904, he could not meet his liabilities as they became due. Malvern News, January 27, 1906.

The many friends of Mr A Chew of Callow Farm, Dymock, will hear with regret that, whilst attending to a threshing machine on Tuesday, his hand was caught in the machinery and so severely was the limb injured, he was conveyed to Gloucester Infirmary. It is feared that two of his fingers will have to be amputated. Ledbury Free Press, January 30, 1906.

50 years ago

Sheet metal workers at the Ministry of Supply Radar Establishment at Malvern on Monday staged an unofficial strike. The strike, which was foreshadowed last week, involved about 30 men in a dispute over merit pay and affects the establishment's engineering unit in St Andrew's Road and also Defford Air Station. Yesterday, the Gazette understood the men were back at work, but no official statement was made either by management or workers. Malvern Gazette, January 27, 1956.

Snow, the third visitation this winter, fell heavily on Ledbury on Sunday evening, melted by Monday morning, before more fell and lay. By Monday evening, snow and ice made road conditions the worst of the winter, but traffic through Ledbury was not unduly delayed. Ledbury Reporter, January 27, 1956.

25 years ago

How to cope with the future costs and pressures of a million visitors a year on the Malvern Hills is the crucial question posed in a major new report to the Countryside Commission. Erosion is so serious in places that without treatment, the report warns, the ridge of the hills is in danger of becoming an exposed spine of rock rather than a soft grassy outline. Malvern Gazette, January 29, 1981.

A unique scheme to provide cheap homes for first-time buyers in Ledbury is to be launched after the Malverns Hills housing committee backed the idea of the Gloucestershire Housing Society buying up seven acres of surplus land at the Deer Park. The society will build low cost housing for young people, between the ages of 18 and 40. Ledbury Reporter, January 29, 1981.