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Childhood Years
Many hours were spent playing on the hills around this area. In the centre of the picture is a mound, we called it the Tump, it was the excavation from the cutting and it was made into a feature with three seats or benches for walkers to enjoy a rest and admire the views over Herefordshire.
Contributed by Bob Fisher
Worcestershire memories
Childhood Years
Many hours were spent playing on the hills around this area. In the centre of the picture is a mound, we called it the Tump, it was the excavation from the cutting and it was made into a feature with three seats or benches for walkers to enjoy a rest and admire the views over Herefordshire.
A memory of Great Malvern contributed by Bob Fisher
Mom lived in Baynards...1930-40's
Mom went to the country to live during the war. She lived in a big field - the house and land were let by the Fulton Brick Works, I believe that was the name. I have about 5 pictures of her home with my Auntie Connie.
A memory of Barnards Green contributed by Susie Somerville-Franz
Simmonds Hanley Castle
I am researching the Simmonds family who lived in Quay Lane in Hanley Castle about 1900. My father recalls the floods of the early 1900s when Quay Lane flooded and he was trapped up stairs with his mother, Alice Simmonds.
Does any one out there have any information on the Simmonds family as I have a lot of there history to share.
Len Simmonds smmndssev@aol.com
Extracts From Great Malvern & Worcestershire books
At the time of Domesday Book, this part of Worcestershire was described as a ‘wilderness’, with ‘numerous and vast
thickets’. Great Malvern grew up around a Benedictine Priory said to have been founded by St Wrest, who found
sanctuary here from marauding Danes.
An extract from from"Worcestershire Photographic Memories".
Only the Priory Church and Gatehouse
remain; the rest of the buildings were
taken down in the aftermath of Henry
VIII’s Dissolution. Thomas Cromwell,
the architect of this destruction, was
charitable towards the occupants, giving
pensions to the Prior and eleven monks.
An extract from from"Worcestershire Photographic Memories".
Malvern College for Boys was founded in
1865 and is one of England’s leading
public schools. Many of the early pupils
were the children of parents scattered
across the British Empire. Notice the
horse-drawn lawnmower
in the foreground.
An extract from from"Worcestershire Photographic Memories".
It is little wonder that this restful landscape has inspired great art. Sir Edward Elgar is buried at Little Malvern. Elgar
was a true son of Worcestershire, and much of his music was inspired by his regular walks around the Malvern Hills.
An extract from from"Worcestershire Photographic Memories".
The medicinal regime was quite severe during its Victorian heyday. In the 1840s patients at the health centre of Dr
Wilson and Dr Gully were subjected to strict dieting, long walks over the hills and the indignity of being wrapped
up in cold wet sheets for hours at a time.
An extract from from"Worcestershire Photographic Memories".