Park View
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Park View by Bob Embleton as part of the Geograph project.
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Park View
Image: © Bob Embleton Taken: 21 Apr 2010
The central and more elaborate section was built in the early 1840s when Great Malvern was little more than a village. Dr James Wilson returned to England after studying the "Water Cure" in Graefenberg, a village nestled in the Austrian mountains near Silesia. He started his practice in a hotel on Belle Vue Terrace before having this establishment purpose built for the "water cure". The building later became The County Hotel (when the two wings were added). During the second world war it housed scientists developing radar and became a government-owned, but YMCA-run hostel for young employees of the post-war Royal Radar Establishment. A riotous place accommodating apprentices, young scientists and students: in my case, a good place to meet one's future spouse! It became Park View Apartments when the government sold off its family silver in the 1980s. Image
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Image Location
Latitude
52.109169
Longitude
-2.328346