Qualla: Malvern Museum https://qualla.com/malvern-museum en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:15 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Malvern Museum https://qualla.com/malvern-museum Malvern Museum: Introduction https://qualla.com/malvern-museum/ The building is the first exhibit. Step under the late-15th-century vault of the Priory Gatehouse, the second oldest building in Great Malvern after the Norman priory church itself, and you are walking through the only fragment of monastic Malvern still standing more or less as the monks knew it. Henry VIII's commissioners dissolved the priory in 1539; in 1544 the gatehouse was sold to William Pynnocke, then on to John Knotsford a year later, then by Elizabethan marriage to the Savage family for two centuries. By the 19th century it housed solicitors and estate agents, and its upper floor served as the courtroom of the Malvern Police Court. Since 1980 it has been a museum, run by volunteers and full of the strangest contents - a Victorian water cure on one floor, the wartime invention of radar on another.

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/q/2/malvern-museum-wp/gcq2-malvern-museum-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Malvern Museum: Gift of a Gatehouse https://qualla.com/malvern-museum/ The arrangement is unusual. The Malvern Museum Society was founded in 1979 as a registered charity, and the following year the de Vere Group - the company that owned the neighbouring Abbey Hotel - simply gave it the Priory Gatehouse to use. The volunteers had a Tudor-era listed b...

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/q/2/malvern-museum-wp/gcq2-malvern-museum-water-cure.mp3 0:06 3 full Malvern Museum: The Secret in the Schoolrooms https://qualla.com/malvern-museum/ In May 1942 the Telecommunications Research Establishment - the people inventing radar - moved from Worth Matravers on the Dorset coast to Malvern College, in part because the south-coast site was thought vulnerable to a German commando raid like the one the British had just pull...

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/q/2/malvern-museum-wp/gcq2-malvern-museum-lorna-lloyds-war.mp3 0:06 5 full Malvern Museum: Worth the Stop https://qualla.com/malvern-museum/ Most small museums struggle with a single theme. The Malvern Museum has at least five it could choose, and instead presents them all - Roman to Iron Age, monastic to Victorian, water cure to radar, Edward Elgar to the Morgan Motor Company whose cars are still built by hand in a M...

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