NOW the brouhaha over St Anne’s Well café has abated, surely it’s time to resurrect the Beacon Café.
The dilly dallying at the time meant the loss of a unique facility to the people of Malvern and visitors from the rest ofthe globe.
A café, with visitor information staffed most of the year, a modern camera obscura (like the 1870s one in the photo), and builtin Malvern Hill stone to blend in with the surroundings.
A new café would satisfy the need for a family facility atthe summit through the season and provide a “convenience”
(the old café had lavatories!)for people to use without descending for facilities and food.
More people go to the top ofthe Beacon than St Anne’sWell.
Is the time ripe for the Malvern Hills Conservators and the people of Malvern to grasp the nettle and right the wrong done in the Eighties by some disinterested parliamentary lords and bishops.
I have yet to come across a Malvern person who doesn’t agree with these sentiments.
The route to the hills should terminate on the Beacon summit with a cup of tea and a bacon butty – veggie alternatives would of course be available.
JOHN GRIFFITH
West Malvern
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