100 years ago.

Arrangements for the visit of French and Belgian editors and litterateurs on Wednesday next are now practically complete, and it now remains for the public of Malvern to give them the heartiest possible welcome, both by decorating the line of route, and by being present in large numbers at the banquet to give the visitors a hearty handshake. On Wednesday, Malvern will be entered by way of the Link. The party will proceed along Graham Road it the iImperial Hotel. Here tea will be served by a few French-speaking ladies, who will welcome the visitors in their native language. At 6.45 the party will start for their voyage circulaire round the hills, passing up the Avenue Road and Church Street, making a detour round the Priory by the Assembly Rooms, into the Worcester Road, through North Malvern and West Malvern, along the Jubilee Drive to the British Camp, returning by Malvern Wells and Ellerslie. It is hoped that the line of the route will be profusely decorated.

Malvern Gazette, June 26, 1914.

50 years ago.

Traffic may in future bypass the Abbey Gateway if a scheme which the district council's highways committee favours materialises, At Tuesday's meeting, the council will be recommended to ask the surveyor to prepare a scheme for a by-pass on the western side of the gateway and to authorise the clerk to secure the closure of the gateway as long as this is necessary in the interests of safety. The cost of the by-pass (exclusive of land,)would be in the region of £5,000. Following extensive damage to the gateway on May 23, it has been closed to vehicles for 14 days under emergency powers, and since then the owner, Mr R F W Manley, proprietor of the Abbey Hotel, has been able, under a standing order, to extend the closure until July. A further extension would require the approval of the Ministry of Transport. The 400-years-old gateway is listed by the Ministry of Housing and Local Government. It has suffered from damage through traffic in recent years.

Malvern Gazette, June 26, 1964.

25 years ago.

A car-load of visitors to Malvern had a dramatic introduction to the Hills at the weekend when their car had to be towed back from a quarry edge by Malvern firemen. Sub-officer Paul Smith said that the car, driven by a woman with her three young daughters as passengers, had to be pulled back from the edge of a very rough track to the south of Holywell Road on Saturday. He said: "They lost their way and went upward towards the Hills. On their way back, they got on to a track where you would not normally take a vehicle and the car ended up hanging over the edge." Sub-officer Smith said that the fire brigade had recovered the car after the visitors had got out, and Malvern police then got the car to the bottom of the track. He said: "They were obviously not local people. We had to use our power winch on the special Land Rover to pull the car back round. It could have gone over the edge easily.

Malvern Gazette, June 30, 1989.