100 YEARS AGO Instructions have been received that in future on week-days the public counter of the Malvern Head Post Office is to be open only between 8am to 8pm. This, it is thought, will not inflict any real inconvenience on the public, as the business hitherto done before 8am and after 8pm has been exceedingly small, and only on very rare occasions has there been any business of an urgent nature. It is proposed to commence the new arrangement on Monday the 15th.

Malvern News, April 29, 1911.

50 YEARS AGO Mr Wilfred Noyce, the Everest climber, for some years a master at Malvern College after the war, will be seen on BBC Television on Sunday afternoon in Bookstand, a programme which as its name implies is about current literature.

Malvern Gazette, April 28, 1961.

There was only one road accident in the Ledbury urban district during March, an improvement of over the average for this month during the past five years, which was 3.2.

Ledbury Reporter, April 28, 1961.

25 YEARS AGO Although there is still no word from British Rail yet about repairs to Great Malvern Starton one familiar feature, the tearooms, are back in business. Terry Page, who ran Lady Foley's Tearooms, moved into portable premises which were lifted on to the site on Wednesday.

Malvern Gazette, May 2, 1986.

Plans to open an indoor market at the former British Canners factory on the Bromyard Road industrial estate, Ledbury, have been welcomed in the town.

Ledbury Reporter, May 2, 1986.