100 years ago.

There are already indications of another successful season at Manor Park. The park has been the means of attracting many here during the summer months, and it is equally true to add that a number of our principal residents have taken up their abode in the town since the park was established. The original seven years' lease expired at the end of 1913, but a new lease for another septennial period has been taken, and a fresh guarantee fund, amounting to over £200. has been formed. The fact that this amount was secured without difficulty is proof of the growing popularity of Manor Park as one of the chief attractions of Malvern.

Malvern Gazette, March 13, 1914.

50 years ago.

A Malvern accountant claimed at a valuation court at Malvern that his practice was adversely affected by the 30 steep stone steps that have to be climbed to his office. Mr J P Cordery was appealing against the assessment of £200 gross value, £146 rateable value, on his offices above the National Provincial Bank in Church Street. Mr Cordery said that many clients were unable to visit him because of the steep climb from Church Street to his first-floor offices and that some clients, for this reason, had to be interviewed in parked cars. Opposing the appeal, the local valuation officer said that as Mr Cordery's rent had been fixed as far back as 1946, the present rateable value was reasonable, Malvern Gazette, March 13, 1964.

25 years ago.

Allotment holders in Howsell Road, Malvern Link, have been told that they could lose the land in the near future as owners, the Madresfield Estate, step up pressure for it to be declared development land. Madresfield agent Mr Peter Hughes confirmed this week that he had had to advise those who had asked him that they would sooner or later be given notice to quit. "The estate has been planning development on the land since 1938, and it will definitely go one day, but now it seems that it could be sooner rather than later." He said there had as yet been no instruction to seek planning permission, but could not say there was no possibility of an application before 1992. Malvern Gazette, March 17, 1989.