IN a floridly written introduction to his book entitled Pictures of Nature around Malvern by local naturalist Edwin Lees in 1856, he wrote: "But turn us to the hills, the glorious hills – beauties still as of old – and their exciting and delicious prospects, that no changes can efface, nor any improvements of man's torturing efforts altogether spoil."

With the quarrying yet to come, and now what else, little did he know...

Tony Shadforth

Malvern