100 years ago

Mr F G Willoughby, the College cricket coach, is getting well-deserved praise from press cricket writers for the large number of first-rate players he has turned out for the College. The latest acquisition to the County XI is the captain of the College team, and a most useful addition he is. One wishes the County XI were all Malvernians, for then perhaps some matches would be won.

Malvern Gazette, August 9, 1901.

It seems that Mr Shipton of the Farm Mill, Redmarley, was driving a reaping machine with three horses. Two boys were tending the horses. By some mischance, the chain of the machine broke and alarmed the horses. It ended with Mr Shipton being flung some distance, luckily almost unhurt. But the horses ran away with the youngest lad. He fell right under the knives. His right hand was severed, his right foot cut and his thigh badly gashed. Ledbury Free Press, August 13, 1901.

50 years ago

A "brains trust" of poultry experts entertained and informed members of Malvern Poultry Club when they met on Wednesday week at their new headquarters, the laundry canteen on Yates Hay Road. Questions covered the whole field of poultry-keeping.

Malvern Gazette, August 10, 1951.

For months now, scaffolding has been disfiguring the lovely black and white faade of the Feathers Hotel, but at last that has been taken down. Now fresh black paint gleams over the wooded beams, some of which were rotten and had to be removed. Ledbury Reporter, August 10, 1951.

25 years ago

The entire £1,000 bill for damage by vandals to the rustic bridge over Malvern's Priory Park boating pool may fall to Malvern Hills District Council. Chief executive Mr Len Martin told the council that a claim to the insurers only offered a "pious hope" of success. The bridge has been closed since vandals damaged the main structure in daylight about a month ago. Malvern Gazette, August 12, 1976.

The new home for the elderly at Belle Orchard, Ledbury, will be open to the public next Wednesday. It is expected that 50 residents will be transferred from the existing home - a converted work house, before the end of the year. Ledbury Reporter, August 12, 1976.