100 years ago

The Vicar of Christ Church, having taken up the scheme for the erection of a parish room, or as it is proposed to call it, the Queen Victoria Memorial Room, means to see it through and at the parochial tea in Mill Lane School on Friday evening. He expressed the hope that before another similar event took place the new building, if not erected, would be well in hand. Malvern Gazette, January 17, 1902.

On Tuesday evening, Mr W K Stride MA, Exeter College, Oxford, gave the first of a course of six fortnightly lectures entitled The Making of England at the Barrett Browning Institute, Ledbury, and on the following afternoon, gave the first of a similar series, the subject being Medieval England, there being again a very gratifying attendance. Ledbury Free Press, January 21, 1902.

50 years ago

Mr Ralph Stokes, the Malvern builder, is one of the co-drivers of Mr Bernard Bradnack, the well-known Walsall racing and rally driver, in the Monte Carlo rally. Mr Stokes has driven in several Monte Carlo rallies and was a co-driver to Mr Bradnack in last year's event. Malvern Gazette, January 18, 1952.

"A licensee should be considered as a man with a higher status than an office boy," declared Mr C L Wrist, chairman of the Ledbury Licensed Victuallers' Association on Wednesday at the second quarterly meeting of that body in the Feathers Hotel, Ledbury. He was protesting against the treatment of a manager member of the association, who he said had been dismissed from his job when brewers decided that they preferred to have a tenant instead. Ledbury Reporter, January 18, 1952.

25 years ago

Malvern again had its share of snow on Thursday as the country was caught in the grip of the worst weather for 14 years. Church Street was blocked for a time during the morning and roads through the Wyche Cutting and over British Camp were "dicey". Malvern Gazette, January 20, 1977.

AN appeal has been launched by Ledbury Town Council to help bale out Ledbury Scouts, whose headquarters were badly damaged by gales. Tiles on the roof were made unsafe and the Scouts have been unable to meet there since. Ledbury Reporter, January 20, 1977.