Malvern memories: a look through the Gazette cuttings files

Do you recognise any of the faces from the sporting line-ups? Or perhaps you remember some of the stories that appeared in the paper in the early 2000s?

Upton Youth Band picked up several prizes at the British Youth Bands Association Festival of Fun and Music in April 2003

Pupils at Malvern Girls’ College were working hard making models for the May Day festival in 2002

Margaret Baddeley (left) and Glenys Burrows decorate the fountain at Great Malvern railway station in the annual well dressing event in April 2002

Joan Ellis of Colwall was pictured in the Malvern Gazette 70 years ago, modelling the fashionable hats of the day. Joan was one of nine mannequins – as models were then known – who would be parading at a fashion show in the Winter Gardens

Children working off some of the excess Easter egg sugar rush at a holiday playscheme at The Chase in April 2003

What was thought to be the oldest photograph of Malvern, attributed to Vicomte Joseph Vigier, taken around 1852, was set to be auctioned in 2002 at Sotheby’s. The picture looks north along Belle Vue Terrace with what is now the Mount Pleasant Hotel in the foreground

DJ Usama Dafaalla gives Gazette reporter Nione Meakin and Georgia Ingles some tips on how to operate a turntable during a DJ workshop at Malvern Theatres in April 2004

Morgan Aero 8 FC, members of The Soccer Site Malvern Football league division one, pictured in April 2004

Debating the issues in April 2005 as the race hotted up in that year's General Election are Chase pupils, from left left, Mastane Williamson, Olly Hunt, Beth Cartwright, Victoria Tuck, Phil Rush and Kyle Christie

This picture of the Sunday football side the Three Nuns was shared with the Gazette in 2005 by Dave Farell, who can be seen first from the left on the front row. It was taken in April 1991 after they beat Archdale 3-1 to become champions of the Worcester & District League Sunday Premier Division One

Lisa Westmacott set up decluttering business The Chaos Clinic in West Malvern in April 2006

Ted Glazzard, of the Bromyard Teddy Bear andToy Museum, with a model of Supercar from Gerry Anderson’s groundbreaking TV show of the 1960s

This picture, contributed by Tony Clay, of Malvern, shows the last day of operations at the old Malvern Wells station on April 3, 1965

This picture of Barnards Green Cricket Club – taken, it is thought, in 1976 – was shared with the Gazette by Anthony Creese in April 2006. It includes Tim Curtis, who went on to captain Worcestershire and played for England in 1988-89

Planting seed potatoes in April 2007 at Grove Junior School are pupils (from left) Hannah O’Donnell, Sophie Green and Rhys Harpin

Jane Davies accompanies some of the singers from St James’ CE Primary School whose version of With A Little Help From My Friends was among the top 10 entries of a competition run by BBC 6 Music in April 2007

Evie Richards, Connor Hicks and Christopher Garner-George, from St James’ Primary School, West Malvern, were making bugs and flowers large insects and flowers out of recycled materials that were used to decorate Priory Park as part of the town's 14th May Day celebrations 15 years ago

Jean Griffin celebrated 21years as captain of Malvern Girls’ Brigade in April 2004

This mystery photograph comes from the collection of Brian Iles, who shared it with the Gazette in April 2004. Mr Iles thought the men in the picture could be members of a West Malvern choir but had no confirmation.