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Looking into the future of Malvern

6:40am Friday 3rd July 2009

THE future development of Malvern as a shopping centre was being debated on the front page of the Gazette 50 years ago.

Garden day was a great success

4:10am Friday 3rd July 2009

MR C W Dyson Perrins was one of Malvern's great benefactors, and the Gazette 100 years ago recorded an example of his benevolence.

Echoes from the past

2:00am Friday 3rd July 2009

100 years ago.

Echoes from the past

6:40am Friday 26th June 2009

100 years ago.

Clocks cause consternation across Malvern

4:40am Friday 26th June 2009

"THE Link Church clock, whose behaviour for a considerable period has not been that of an exemplary timekeeper, has persisted during several weeks in keeping some five minutes ahead of Greenwich," noted columnist Ariel in the Gazette 50 years ago.

Mystery of radar 'angels'

2:30am Friday 26th June 2009

RADAR 'angels' seen before sunrise; RRE cannot explain the mystery was the headline in the Gazette 50 years ago.

Echoes from the past

7:00am Friday 19th June 2009

100 years ago.

Council proposes new leisure pool

4:00am Friday 19th June 2009

"A £4.5 million leisure pool and sports centre is being put forward by a council think-tank as the answer to Malvern's recreation needs," reported the Gazette 25 years ago.

Season of excursions is here

2:00am Friday 19th June 2009

"THE season for excursions has arrived," wrote Ariel in the Gazette 100 years ago, "and particulars for reaching the coast and elsewhere are being duly advertised.

Malvern on the road to recovery

7:50am Friday 12th June 2009

"BUSINESS in Malvern is commencing to look up," noted Gazette columnist Ariel a century ago, indicating that things had perhaps not been going so well for the town.

Echoes from the past

5:40am Friday 12th June 2009

100 years ago.

Distinguished names who made Malvern their home

4:50am Friday 12th June 2009

SOME of the distinguished old boys of Malvern College were mentioned in the Gazette 50 years ago, after the school announced it was launching an appeal in the turn-up to its centenary in 1965.

Welcome to the jungle heroes

8:50am Friday 5th June 2009

THE editor's notebook in the Gazette 50 years ago this week contains a heartfelt tribute to the latest inhabitants of one of the army camps, which in those days still surrounded the town.

Echoes from the past

6:20am Friday 5th June 2009

100 years ago.

Focusing on the gas lamps

4:10am Friday 5th June 2009

THE cost of maintaining Malvern's gas lamps was raised in the Gazette a couple of weeks ago, so it's interesting to see in the paper 100 years ago this week, the town's surveyor and engineer, Mr W Osborne Thorpe, giving out a few facts on the lamps to a conference of municipal engineers.

Forger's work is put on display

6:10am Friday 22nd May 2009

"AN original pastel drawing by one of the world's greatest art forgers is on display in Malvern," announced the Gazette 25 years ago.

Birthday for leading firm

3:10am Friday 22nd May 2009

A LEADING Ledbury firm's 21st birthday was reported in the Gazette 50 years ago.

Echoes from the past

2:00am Friday 22nd May 2009

100 years ago.

Echoes from the past

3:30am Saturday 16th May 2009

100 years ago.

Man arrested after Hills set alight

7:40am Friday 15th May 2009

MALVERN Hills Aflame was the headline in the Gazette 100 years ago. "On Saturday night, about 10.30, a serious gorse fire broke out on the western side of the hills, near the Colwall Park Quarry.


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