SCOTTISH dancing was the unlikely sight seen on the Malvern Hills during a Bank Holiday weekend in which the town was evidently popular.
"Holiday crowds invade Malvern" was the headline on the front page of the Malvern Gazette on May 18, 1951.
The story described how crowds "rolled in by road and rail. Some 900 people from the Black Country came by two excursion trains and several thousand from Worcester and Birmingham are estimated to have made the journey by bus, car, motor and bicycle".
The more energetic climbed on the hills, while others watched bowls, boated, swam and looked at flowering trees in Priory Park.
A fair at Link Common lasted well into the evening, while some 900 dancers enjoyed a programme of music by Dennis Wheeler and his orchestra at the Winter Gardens.
Meanwhile the Malvern Scots Club gathered on the hills for their own form of dancing.
"Many hikers gathered round to watch the spectacle, when more than 30 dancers, many in national costume, took part in such spirited measures as the eightsome reel and The Dashing White Sergeant to music supplied by records," said the Gazette.
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