List of local and social history articles, and biographies
 This menu lists our pages about local and
social history, which are mainly about the Malvern Hills area of the UK, but
you will also find some miscellaneous stories and biographies, many sparked
from talks we have attended in retirement and chatting to friends.
A few pages can also be reached from the Photo Gallery menu.
You can use your browser to search the page for a
keyword, if you can't immediately spot what you are looking for. Click on
topic below to view story.
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Local
history (Malvern Hills and surrounds)
Social history
Biographies
A short history of Malvern
The Victorian 'water cure' doctors
of Great Malvern
Out and about in Malvern Link
A stroll around Great Malvern
A stroll down Abbey Road Great
Malvern
A stroll down Back Lane Great
Malvern
A stroll down Orchard Road Great
Malvern
A stroll down
Worcester Road Great Malvern
College Road and Townshend House
Rose Bank Gardens
Shops in Worcester Road Great Malvern
Priory Park Mansion
Great Malvern Priory and
its churchyard (miscellaneous)
Great Malvern Cemetery
Great Malvern library and War
Memorial
Roll of the Men of Malvern who
fell in the Great War
Malvern Wells Cemetery
Churches in and near Malvern (photo
album)
Burial grounds in Great Malvern and
surrounds
John Archer 1791-1877 (hotel
keeper)
List of artists and
photographers associated with Malvern
About Madresfield in
Worcestershire
St Leonard's Newland churchyard
and choristers' war memorial
Malvern schools then and now
Memories of The Hill
School by Tony Gwynn-Jones
Memories of the Link
School by Everett Jones
The Story of The Abbey School Malvern
Wells
Malvern private
schools - list transcribed from Littlebury's Trade Directory of 1873
Malvern utilities then and now
Davenham then and now
(History of a residential home for the elderly and mini-biography of
Charles William Dyson Perrins)
Malvern 1902 telephone directory
The Nether Grange Estate, the
Mason family and the Victorian hydros of Great Malvern
Nelson, John (a soldier of the
Great War)
Past Malvern residents and visitors
Hatley St George and familes
that lived there
Holly Mount mansion and families
that lived there
Rothwell and
Milbourne's garage
Street directory of Graham
Road, Malvern, 1911
Street directory of Graham
Road, Malvern, 2016
Street directory of Priory
Road, Malvern, 1911
Street directory of Priory
Road, Malvern, 2018
Barnards Green, Malvern, then and now
A tour of Barnards Green shops in
2012
The Dymock Poets
Transcription of the Will of
Major General William Henry Beckwith
(whose daughters are buried in the churchyard of St Mary Guarlford)
Casualties of the Great
War - menu
(The menu contains links to some of the casualties we have discovered
during our research and Rolls of the Fallen)
Red Cross and military
hospitals in the Malvern Hills area
The Social history section lists articles of a more
general nature which are not related to Malvern.
Companies then and now
(A brief history of some radio, TV and engineering firms)
Farnborough Court Red Cross
hospital
Michie Hospital
(About a Red Cross hospital in London 1916 - 1919)
Victorian Art and Artists - 'The
McCulloch Collection' overview and menu
Review of books
about George McCulloch and Broken Hill
(historical background to the McCulloch Collection of Modern Art)
Review of
reference book about The McCulloch Collection of Modern Art
Barnett Samuel Marks
(Victorian painter)
The Glasgow Boys (review of
a book about a group of painters)
Wucha Jawar Camp on the North West
Frontier of India
(Photos of an Indian army field battery circa 1930 - 1940)
The Biographies section mostly lists interesting stories
about notable Malvern residents, particularly schoolteachers, but amongst
these you will find a few stories about other people we have researched
having no connection with Malvern.
Ben-Ayad, Abdullah of Tunis
Birley, Reverend John Lindsay (schoolmaster
and organist)
Cooper, Caroline (Victorian
schoolmistress)
(who started one of the first private schools for girls in Malvern)
Craddock, Stephen (mayor of
Wolverhampton)
(putting a name to a Victorian photograph)
Cundell, Len (racehorse trainer)
(Tenuous link to Lester Piggot's uncle Victor Thomas Cannon Piggot who
ran a betting shop in Great Malvern and lived in Hall Green)
Dunlop, Norman Gordon
Edward (chartered accountant)
Duplock, Julia Marten (Victorian schoolmistress)
(a colleague of Caroline Cooper)
Dyson Perrins, Charles William (a local benefactor, see under Davenham above)
Elmslie, Edmund Wallace (architect)
Elmslie,
Alice Gray (cousin of Edmund Wallace)
Farmer, Alice Kate (school
mistress and councillor)
Farmer, Alice Kate
(obituary)
Firth, Florence Kate (school mistress)
Flint, Amy (school mistress)
Glazier, Edward Victor Denis
(Director of RRE 1967-1972)
Greenslade, Isabel (a founder of
Malvern Girl's College)
Grindrod, Ralph Barnes, MD
(water cure doctor)
Henley, Samuel, and William Bidwell
(two Victorian artists, father and son, who visited Malvern)
Jenkins, John Sloggett (newspaper
proprietor)
Judson, Florence and Alice (head teachers)
see under The Story of The Abbey
School Malvern Wells
Leighton, Janet (Victorian
schoolmistress)
(founder of Lawnside school)
Lewis, Ethel Mary (nursing
sister)
(who nursed in NZ and in WWI)
Lloyd, Revd William
Edward (a blind clergyman)
MacWhirter, John (Victorian
artist)
May, Norman John (photographer)
MacKenzie James (a Victorian
gentleman)
McGavin, Lawrie Hugh (surgeon)
Merton, Zachary (benefactor)
Miller, George Murray (a
Victorian soldier)
Morris, Charles (Victorian
benefactor)
Munn, George Shaw (Rector of
Madresfield)
Norman, Henry (a soldier of the
Great War)
Oldmeadow, James Charles (Victorian
artist)
Puckle, Charles Edward Murray (a
soldier of the Great War)
Quill, Ernest Jack DCM (journalist)
Romney, John Orde
(About the great grandson of famous portrait painter George Romney and
the Romney family of Whitestock Hall)
Sayle, Gladys (founder of Ellerslie
school)
Sellar, Robert (Australian
merchant)
Stevens, Matthew Thomas (newspaper
proprietor)
Walker, Rev William
(Victorian schoolmaster)
Yeats, George Paterson
(Victorian artist)
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