100 years ago

A resident in the Link informed me that yesterday morning a stranger called at his door in the person of a tramp. He was civil and polite and made no unreasonable requests for help. He asked for no food, neither did he solicit monetary assistance. All he said he wanted was a bit of soap with which to wash himself! Good tramp, there are few of your sort about. Malvern Gazette, May 16, 1902.

Arthur Morris, of Wellington Heath, was charged with leaving a horse unattended outside the Swan Inn, Ledbury. Sergeant Lloyd stated that he watched for 25 minutes. There was no one in charge and no one came out of the public house to look after it. The pony was very restless, and the omnibuses passing to and from seemed to startle it. Ledbury Free Press, May 20, 1902.

50 years ago

Music emanating from the fairground on Malvern Link Common at holiday times was described by Mr Ewart Ballard at Monday's meeting of Malvern Hills Conservators as "appalling, filthy American screaming and wailing". He said: "It is inviting a breach of the peace - and if I lived there I should take violent action. It is only the tameness of Malvern people that they put up with it." Malvern Gazette, May 16, 1952.

Despite the strong opposition of the Ledbury UDC and the marked general objections expressed by the public of Ledbury against the erection of a new police station at a site adjoining the Worcester Road, the clearing of the site has now begun. An alternative site existed in Bye Street, near the site of the proposed new fire station. Ledbury Reporter, May 16, 1952.

25 years ago

Malvern shopkeepers are open to the idea of a six-day trading week. The Chamber of Trade are in favour of a six-day week, mainly because they believe it will encourage trade to the Malverns. No-one who does not want to join in need do so, the Chamber say, but the option is flexible and can be operated when it is thought desirable, such as when the town is full of visitors for summer or a conference. Malvern Gazette, May 19, 1977.

Sparks flew at the annual meeting of Ledbury Town Council, when members of the public questioned the development of the Lower Road Trading Estate, and it was suggested that it never would have been built if a council official had lived nearby. Ledbury Reporter, May 19, 1977.