100 years ago.

There will be a scene of pageantry in Malvern on Sunday morning when the local Territorials and other bodies in affinity with them will parade for morning service at the Priory Church. There is always a good muster on these occasions, and the scene both in the streets and at the church is usually witnessed by a large crowd. It has rather been the fashion of late years for man mateur critics of military matters to use the Territorials for powder and shot in a metaphorical sense, but on the occasion of a church parade these patriotic citizens never fail to impress.

50 years ago.

Malvern Hills Conservators on Monday gave Mr B A Waller permission to fell a yew tree. Mr Waller has bought a field between the Brockhill and Mathon roads and intends to found a stud of thoroughbred horses worth between £5,000 and £50,000. He wrote to the board stating that the old yew tree represented a danger to the horses which he planned to keep there. The board was told by its clerk, Col E D L Whatley, that though the tree was on Conservators' land, should Mr Walter's horses die from eating the yew, the board would be responsible.

Malvern Gazette, July 12, 1963.

25 years ago.

Negotiations are in progress over who - the Swan Theatre in Worcester, or the Malvern Festival - should present George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion in the 75th anniversary year of its first performance in this country. The Swan has already announced its forthcoming programme to include a professional production of what is undoubtedly Shaw's one of most famous plays in February/March this year. But Malvern Hills District Council was confident that it would be the Malvern Festival production in 1989 - the 60th anniversary of the festival founded by Shaw.

Malvern Gazette, July 15, 1988.