100 years ago.

The lease of the Market expires on Lady Day next, and the Streets Committee are about to consider whether it shall be renewed or allowed to lapse on that date. When the building was erected, it was with the object of stopping street hawking, and compelling those who went from door to door selling various kinds of domestic articles, to take stalls in the Market and there retail their goods. For a time after it opened, the Market was a popular "shopping" centre, and several of the stallholders were keen competitions with the shopkeepers. For some years past, however, the stalls have gradually become vacant, with the result that the Market is a "decaying industry" and a loss to the Council. Iy is difficult to assign a reason for the decline of the Market, but it is probably to be found in its situation. It Occupies and position of splendid isolation, and it would be much easier for a stranger or a new-comer from Malvern to solve a mathematical problem than to endeavour to find out where the building stands.

Malvern Gazette, December 4, 1914.

50 years ago.

Something new in the tape recording field is to be on show to the public for the first time in this part of the Midlands at Preston's, Link Top, Malvern, this weekend. It is the V.K.R. 500 television tape recorder designed to be used in conjunction with a closed circuit system or with a standard domestic receiver suitably modified. This machine, which can be used for recording TV programmes, uses the well-known direct recording principle as is used in all normal audio recorders, recording with a band width of 2mcs. on ordinary half-inch magnetic tape. Its circuits are entirely transistorised, employing silicon transistors on a single printed circuit board, and are different from those of earlier attempts to produce a machine of this type in many ways. The modifications required to the standard television receiver is easily carried out and does not in any way affect the operation of the receiver. Mr H Preston, sole agent for this part of the Midlands, will be pleased to arrange demonstrations for enthusiasts.

Malvern Gazette, December 4, 1964.

25 years ago.

A Malvern man painted the design on a trinket box presented to HRH the Princess of Wales when she opened the new Worcester headquarters of Relate, the Marriage Guidance Council, on Tuesday. Freelance artist Mr Ray Poole of Woodbury Rise, Malvern, painted the box incorporating one of the Princess's favourite motifs - a frog. "I don't know why, but it seems the Princess is very keen on frogs," said Relate manager Alison Chambers. Mr Keith Stanley of Malvern Wells, chairman of Worcester Relate, accompanied the royal visitor during her tour of the new offices in Castle Street. Mr Stanley was full of enthusiastic praise for the princess's obvious interest and support. "We could not have a better patron," he said. "She has thrown herself into it with great enthusiasm. She is a very good listener and contributed to the training exercise in a way that was helpful and to the point." The princess was late arriving for her visit to Worcester, having been delayed by a route change caused by fog, but she captivated all those who gathered to greet her.

Malvern Gazette, December 8, 1989.