100 YEARS AGO.

A few weeks ago we suggested that during the hot weather the main thoroughfare of Malvern might be watered by the council on Sunday mornings. Motors and vehicles are continually passing through Malvern Link, along the Worcester Roadand the centre of the town on Sundays, and during the hot weather the dust nuisance is almost intolerable. To send a water cart over the route for a few hours on a Sunday forenoon would have a very desirable effect, and would prevent the innumerable complaits that are now heard on every hand.

Malvern Gazette, July 4, 1913.

50 YEARS AGO.

Malvern Council, meeting in private on Tuesday, gave authority to the Clerk, Mr L J Martin, to negotiate on their behalf a new lease for the Festival Theatre. The Winter Gardens and Publicity Committee, whose chairman is Mr H F Lewis, had reported that the present lessees, Ad-Visers Ltd, had indicated an interest in a new lease. Tied up with this matter, and also discussed in private, were requests from the Worcester Operatic and Dramatic Society and the Malvern Festival Committee for assurances that their bookings of the Theatre would remain firm.

Malvern Gazette, July 5, 1963.

25 YEARS AGO.

The town's great gas lamps controversy has flared up again, as parish councillors debate whether to keep them burning into the 1990s. Members of Malvern Wells Parish Council are tp compile a dossier on the Victorian street lights before reaching any decision on their future. The lamps, which cost about £3,500 to maintain last financial year, have been the focus of discussion for over a decade. Views are sharply divided on whether to keep them for their tourist and antique value, or to replace them with lookalikes that give better light.

Malvern Gazette, July 8, 1988.