History Open Day, Hanley Swan
The Hanleys Village Society organised a history open day for Saturday 12 August. The exhibition at Hanley Swan Village Hall showed the development of the villages of Hanley Castle and…
Malvern in a Day Book Published
You may remember the talk by our member Jan Condon on the "Malvern in a Day" project during lockdown. This project started as a task to catalogue the archive of…
How age at death has changed in Malvern since 1861
The project to transcribe the burial records for Malvern Cemetery gives us the opportunity to do some analysis into how life has changed since 1861, the year that the cemetery…
New Records Available to Members
The project to transcribe the burial records for Malvern Cemetery is now complete. We have made the records are available on the website for members to search. There were some…
Meeting Report 5th April 2023
Photo now known to be Jessie Davis from Newport. Taken in early 1890s The theme of the meeting was photographs and what they can lead to in terms of your…
Lots of new books in the library
As you will be aware our founder, Frank Townsend, died recently. His family have donated his collection of family history books to the society, for which we are very grateful.…
FFHS Really Useful Bulletins
Are you a member of MFHS? If so, you might be interested to know that the bulletins issued by the Federation of Family History societies are stored on the members' area of this website for your perusal.
The Tudor House Museum
MFHS group visit to the Tudor House Museum, Worcester 28 February 2023 Our first visit this year was to the Tudor House Museum in Friar St, Worcester. This attractive black…
Meeting Report 1st March 2023
Our speaker at the March Meeting was Dr. Mike Jenkins, a retired medical doctor and amateur historian. He has been interested in the forms and diversity of place names for…
New database available to members: WW1 Dead
Our projects team has been beavering away collecting and transcribing information about Malvern's WW1 dead from the memorials around Malvern. There are memorials in most of the churches plus the…
Handout from Dr Penny Walters’ Adoption Talk
If you are interested in tracing your family as an adopted person, this handout will be of use to you.
Barnards Green Blacksmith Video
Malvern Civic Society commissioned a video of Barnards Green Forge. It's published on YouTube, so we have linked to it here - well worth a look! The forge was built…