ON August 19, 1944, the Malvern Gazette published extracts from an interview most likely conducted by its Editor, Miss Joyce King, with Mr George Bernard Shaw, then aged 88, seeking his views on the future of post-war Malvern.

She asked him if Malvern could hope to have him again as a fairly frequent visitor.

He replied: "The only visit I am now young enough to contemplate is to the Golders Green Crematorium.

"Malvern, by the way, should have a crematorium lest the dead finally crowd out the living."

Incidentally, he also advocated a funicular to the top of the Beacon, and an aerodrome.

Roger Hall-Jones

Malvern