100 Years Ago

LOCAL Temperance Workers have been in active evidence this week, and they have every reason to congratulate themselves on the large meeting in the Assembly Rooms on Monday evening, when the principal speaker was Lady Henry Somerset. Her Ladyship, in her cultured and fluent style, made a stirring speech in support of the principles of total abstinence, and had the entire sympathy of her audience, and as the result of her appeal twenty -six signed the pledge at the close of the meeting.

Malvern Gazette, September 14, 1900.

It is hardly necessary to record the fact that in Miss Eliza Jay of New Street, Ledbury, our good old town has a resident who is so liberal as she is kind-hearted. Many a poor person in Ledbury has cause to thank her with many feelings of gratitude for the numerous acts of charity she had displayed. But no one will ever know to what extent her liberality has reached, for all has been done in a quiet and unostentatious manner.

Ledbury Free Press, September 18, 1900.

50 Years Ago

BOOKINGS for the revived Malvern Elgar Festival, which opens on Monday week, September 25, with a reception and ball, are heavy and tickets for the last concert on September 29 are sold out. The BBC has recognised the event as being of major importance, and is arranging to broadcast the first half of the opening programme from the Winter Gardens.

Malvern Gazette, September 15, 1950.

The Ledbury Parish Church Choir are preparing to make a special effort for the Bells Restoration Fund which, as everyone knows, has reached about one third of the £1,500 required. Mr H.C. Hooper, organist and choirmaster told me, "The idea is to obtain a large chorus of singers in the town and give a special recital in the church next spring."

Ledbury Reporter, September 15, 1950.

25 Years Ago

MRS Susannah Woodward saw her 100th birthday in with a smile on Monday - and she was not only celebrating her century.

For Mrs Woodward, who has lived with her daughter, Mrs Evelyn Knight, at Old Byeways, Suckley, since she was 90, was almost completely blind for over five years until an operation early this year restored the sight of one eye. She says it was one of the greatest days of her life when she was able to see her grandchildren again.

Malvern Gazette, September 18, 1975.

Ledbury Town presented their new manager, Roy Green with a 2-1 win over Hednesford Town Res. On Saturday - their first league win of the season and all being well an augury of better things in store after a depressing sequence of losses.

Ledbury Reporter, September 18, 1975.