100 years ago.

The patriotic march on Thursday of last week was one of the most inspiring sites ever witnessed in Malvern, Everybody was interested in it, for the War has brought home to all the grimness of the struggle in which we are engaged. Certainly the event was unique in the annals of the town; but we live in stirring times, and what to us in past days may have appeared strange and unfamiliar is now to a great extent looked upon as a matter of course, for events move rapidly in these later days of the world's history. A few months ago, all of us in Malvern were looking forward to a friendly invasion by His Majesty's Army, whose annual manoeuvres were fixed to take place in this district in September, but before that time had arrived we were face to face, not with manoeuvres but with stern reality. No one would have dreamt at that time that we should be called upon top give such a heavy toll of our manhood to the service of the nation and the empire, But so it is, and the patriotic march on Thursday was an outward and visible sign of the sacrifice.

Malvern Gazette, November 27, 1914.

50 years ago.

The increasing traffic congestion in Church Street was discussed at Malvern Trades Council's meeting on Wednesday, when it was suggested that the only way to eliminate the problem was to make an order prohibiting parking. Members decided to ask the Urban Council to prevent vehicles of any kind waiting in the street, and it was also agreed that the district council be asked to repair the footpath the footpath, alleged t0o be in a dangerous state, which runs alongside the Priory Churchyard. Bus driver Mr Alf Davis said the position with regard to buses travelling up Church Street was becoming hopeless because of vehicles parked outside the shops. Buses had either to drive on the footpath running beside the Priory or reverse back to the traffic lights. "There is congestion time and time again. We are being told off for driving buses on the footpath. It does the tyres and the steering no good. The footpath is in a shocking state through heavy vehicles going on to it. From the entrance to the Priory Churchyard to the Post Office, there are 54 broken slabs," added Mr Davis.

Malvern Gazette, November 27, 1964.

25 years ago.

Parents and governors of North Malvern and Cowleigh CE schools have been meeting this week and will meet together next Monday to consider a suggestion from the county education department that the two schools should merge. A merger proposal was abandoned two years ago after opposition from both schools, but has been revived following continuing difficulty in financing the rebuilding of North Malvern School on a single site, and the recent fire which demolished Cowleigh School. The chairman of Cowleigh's governors, Canon John Davies, said the feeling was so far that the proposal was a realistic solution, although many involved with the school would have preferred to see Cowleigh stay as a small 90-pupil school. A county council spokesman said the merger proposal, which would involve building a new school on the site of the gutted Cowleigh School in St Peter's Road, had not been put to any county council committee, but was likely to feature on the agenda of the finance and general purposes subcommittee on December 13.

Malvern Gazette, December 1, 1989.