100 YEARS AGO.

The annual Pound Day at Malvern Hospital will take place on Thursday next, May 30th. It is hoped that all interested in the Institution, and the work it is carrying on, will again contribute generously. The articles of various kinds given on previous Pound Days proved a great boon and considerably decreased the housekeeping and management expenses. Patients are received into the hospital not only from Malvern, but from all over the district.

Malvern Gazette, May 24, 1912.

50 YEARS AGO.

A 17-year-old youth tried to climb up the face of the 500-feet high disused North Quarry on the Malvern Hills on Sunday. He become trapped two-thirds of the way up, and had to be rescued by Malvern firemen. To reach the youth, the firemen had to join a 50-foot long rope to their 120-feet lifeline. One of them was lowered down the quarry face, and a second joined him. As it was impossible to haul the youth to the top, he had to be lowered gently a few yards at a time.

Malvern Gazette, May 25, 1962.

25 YEARS AGO.

After 30 years as chairman of the governors of Hanley Castle High School and its predecessor grammar school, Sir Berwick Lechmere has announced his retirement. He said this week that he felt it was time someone younger took over.

Malvern Gazette, May 29, 1987.

Ledbury's historic Brewery Inn in Bye Street, which dates from the days when that part of the town was still known to some older residents by the name of Bishop Street, is to be modernised inside as part of a £100,000 improvement scheme.

Ledbury Reporter, May 29, 1987.