Elgar's grave
I have visited Elgar’s grave three times over the past seven years and it’s always a moving experience – this very modest gravestone in an out-of-the-way Roman Catholic church in Little Malvern. He shares the stone with his wife Alice who predeceased him, and the grave is always well-kept with floral tributes, though nothing like the monuments to other English composers in Westminster abbey.
In Malvern I also visited the Priory, and though I looked at the hills, the pouring rain and my cold deterred me from climbing this time…
Malvern Priory window
Hi Stephanie
I have a friend who went to school at Malvern. I wonder if she was aware of Elgar’s tomb. Will ask her. I saw Stuart in Winnipeg just over a week ago when I was out there to visit my sister. He was happy to see a familiar face. I think once he has been at school a bit longer he’ll start enjoying Winnipeg unless he really hates winter.
Hope you are over your cold. All the best. Oh yes, choir is going well.
gini
From Philip Baldwin, Herefordshire, presently in Canada.
Sadly we have been given the news that Miss Margaret Elgar has died; she was a great-niece of the composer, and one of the few remaining people to have spoken to him. Miss Hilary Elgar lives on.