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Date of photo: 2006	Picture source: Tim Barker
The Gas Tavern was situated on Pickersleigh Road. This pub has now been demolished.
My father Austin Stone (1904-1979 - www.austinstonetruecrime.com), a well known Malvern crime novelist and BBC playwright (Chairman of Malvern Writers Circle 1953) was a patron of the original Gas Tavern Pub in the 1970’s. He was the winner of a competition to change the pub’s name which as a result was called The Langland Arms (a most suitable name considering the history relating to the Langland area of Piers Plowman) for several years prior to it being changed again to the New Gas Tavern.
Ed Stone (May 2019)
Always had a rep as a 'locals local', went to it a couple of times as some friends lived nearby - not the most welcoming of venues. Had a rough & ready clientele, to say the least. Rumour has it that when a new landlord decided to 'clean it up', boasting he had run a pub in NI during the Troubles, & could handle the locals, he was put through a window in about a week.
Bruce Enzer (May 2021)
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Picture source: James
Picture source: Keith Baldwin