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Article: Residential property: Making a splash in Malvern.(Features)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- December 3, 2004
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Byline: Marsya Lennox
The building now known as Priory Manor in Priory Road, Great Malvern is a picturesque reminder of the town's golden years as a fashionable spa.
The local, water-borne wealth grew steadily from 1756 and Dr Wall's glowing testimonial for the natural resource: 'its efficacy stems from its great purity'.
And by the mid 19th century was a smart array of buildings catering for a new health industry.
Priory Manor is said to have been designed as a spa house and centre of hydropathic therapy, all the rage ...