Welcome to the website of The Badsey Society where we invite you to enjoy photos, memories and historical research about the people and places that make up the village of Badsey, the hamlet of Aldington and the neighbouring parish of Wickhamford. To view, just browse and open the categories listed on the left, or enter text into the Search box.
Spanish Flu 1918-1919 - Coronavirus 2020
Find out how the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918-1919 affected Badsey and listen to The Badsey Society’s small contribution in a Radio 4 programme about the pandemic. Why not be a part of history and submit your own 2020 Coronavirus chronicle?
Recently Added Articles
In these strange times, when people are spending long periods of time at home self-isolating, now is the time to explore the history of our villages. Why not write something yourself? We welcome well-researched articles relating to Badsey, Aldington or Wickhamford. Please send as a Word document to history@badsey.net; photos should be sent separately as JPEGs.
- May 2020: The Spanish Flu Epidemic in Badsey, 1918-1919
- May 2020: The Coronavirus Chronicles
- May 2020: Badsey's Drinking Fountain
- May 2020: Silver Jubilee, 1977 – The Day in pictures
- May 2020: The Turnpike Road through Wickhamford
- May 2020: Badsey Servicemen who died in the Second World War
- May 2020: VE Day 2020 in Badsey, Aldington and Wickhamford
- May 2020: VE Day 1945 in Badsey
- May 2020: Wickhamford Church in the mid-1600s
- May 2020: Evesham Abbey Deer Park in Aldington
- May 2020: John Pickup Lord - major landowner in Badsey, Aldington and Wickhamford
- May 2020: Badsey Manor - putting the Manor in context
- May 2020: Early 20th century deeds for Badsey Manor - archive item
- May 2020: Sale of Ann Collet's arable or garden land at Aldington in 1866
- May 2020: Sale of Mary Collett's estate at Badsey and Aldington in 1865
- Apr 2020: Badsey Pike – an 18th-century Toll Road
- Apr 2020: Demolished cottages in Wickhamford
- Apr 2020: Aldington Toll House
- Apr 2020: Arthur Newman of Woodlands, Longdon Hill, Wickhamford
- Mar 2020: Blackshirts in Badsey
- Mar 2020: Wickhamford Market Garden Irrigation System
- Mar 2020: Reuben Finch of Whitfurrows, Wickhamford - a mischievous life
- Mar 2020: Wickhamford pauper burials, 1853-1913
- Mar 2020: Wickhamford blacksmiths and wheelwrights
- Mar 2020: Dennis Cooke Voelcker of the Indian Army and Field Farm, Wickhamford
- Mar 2020: John Gilbert Mills, celebrated organist and resident of The Ridge, Knowle Hill
- Mar 2020: Michael Barnard Tribute - US Airmen parachute down at Wickhamford
- Feb 2020: The Hall houses on Willersey Road, Badsey
- Feb 2020: Walter Hall (1893-1945) of Badsey – his connection with “Walter’s at the Wheatsheaf”
- Jan 2020: George Joseph Sutton (1882-1964) and family of Wickhamford
- Jan 2020: Fatal Air Crash at Wickhamford in 1941
- Jan 2020: Two knights of the realm and their WWII occupancy of The Ridge, Knowle Hill
- Jan 2020: Hall Family – a top ten name in Badsey and Wickhamford in the 19th and 20th centuries
- Jan 2020: Southern Family of Wickhamford – the WWII service of eight sons of Maria Southern
- Jan 2020: Marcus Hill, Evesham MP 1837-1852, later 3rd Baron Sandys, owner of Wickhamford estate
- Jan 2020: James Hall: A Badsey Grower
- Jan 2020: Brazier Family collection - mainly photographic items collected in 1971
- Jan 2020: Tony Royle of The Little Cottage, Badsey – Cartoonist “Belinda” for The Daily Mirror
- Jan 2020: Robert Taylor and family of Elm Farm and Rosebank – a pictorial record
- Jan 2020: Cox Family - a top ten name in Wickhamford in the 20th century
- Jan 2020: Second World War casualties with Wickhamford connections
- Dec 2019: Knight Family – the commonest surname in Badsey for three centuries
- Nov 2019: Joseph Green – Horticultural Instructor
- Nov 2019: Auburn, Ohio – New home for Badsey and Wickhamford migrants
- Nov 2019: Emigration to America – biographies of 41 people
- Oct 2019: Emigration to Canada – biographies of 52 people
- Oct 2019: Bengeworth book leads to the uncovering of the lives of two local women
- Oct 2019: Helga Braasch (1917-2003) – of Germany, Peru … and Wickhamford
- Oct 2019: Vivian Charles Buckley (1901-1993) – Author, Photographer and Lecturer
- Oct 2019: John Gibbs (1805-1881) – Wickhamford-born Gas Engineer
- Oct 2019: Rider Haggard’s Agricultural Survey of the Vale of Evesham
- Oct 2019: George Henry Stewart collection – archive item
- Aug 2019: BMSGH Monumental Inscriptions – archive item
- Jul 2019: Worcestershire in the 1086 Domesday Book
- Jul 2019: Pitchers Hill, Wickhamford – over 450 years of history
- Jun 2019: Joseph & Anna Shipton – owners of "The Field", Wickhamford
- May 2019: Seward Family in Lichfield - Thomas (1708-1790) and Anna (1742-1809)
- May 2019: Aldington, Badsey and Wickhamford in the 1280 Lay Subsidy Roll
- May 2019: Aldington and Badsey in the 1520s Lay Subsidy Roll
- May 2019: Top Ten Surnames in Badsey and Wickhmford through the centuries