Monthly parish magazine, price 3d per month. Named personnel on front: Vicar, Rev W B Chapman; Badsey (Treasurer - Mr C A Binyon; Churchwardens - Mr G A King, Mr G A Jones; Secretary Miss M E Sladden; plus sketch by CAB [Charles Binyon] of Badsey Church; Wickhamford (Churchwardens - Mr G C Lees Milne, Mr G Agg; Sidesmen - Messrs V Daffurn, J Shepperd, W Pearce, J Newbury, C Willis, A.Shooter; PCC Treasurer - Mr G C Lees Milne; PCC Secretary - Mrs E Cooke; Mothers' Union Secretary Mrs S Pearce; Youth Club - Mr E W Sturt; Girl Guides - Mrs G Hancock); editor, M H Harvey, with copy of magazine account for 1947 audited by C A Binyon. Includes letter from the new vicar W B Chapman writing on 29th December 1947 from Featherstone Vicarage, Yorkshire; thanks the Sequestrators (the Rural Dean, Mr King & Mr Jones) for assistance. Reports on Parochial Church Council; Mothers' Union; Badsey Remembrance Hall; Badsey, Aldington and Wickhamford Women’s Institute (20th birthday); 1st Badsey Girl Guides (names Mr Butler who provided used of Aldington Club Room and Miss Lowe, retiring Commissioner); 1st Badsey Brownies (Jean Rouse, Brown Owl); 1st Badsey Boy Scouts and Wolf Cubs (B F P Blake, Group Scoutmaster; prize recipients from Scout section of Sunday School - Ken Mitchell, John Haines, Graham Corbett, Ronald Salter, Anthony Rose; GSM prizes given to John Haines, Kenneth Mitchell, David Rouse); Badsey County Primary School Christmas tea party (cakes provided by Messrs Lawrance, Cull and Butler); Badsey, Aldington & Wickhamford British Legion Men’s Section; British Legion Women’s Section (names Mrs Harvey, Mr C A Binyon, Miss Rugman, Mrs Arnold, J Harrison, J Hartwell, C Collett, R J Barnard, A Westbury, Mrs R Rouse, Mrs A Barnard, R Whitford, Mrs Coward, D M Haynes, Mrs Rose. Continuation of “History of Badsey” by C A Binyon. Baptisms - Michael Thomas Paul Williams, Peter James Webb (Badsey). Marriages - Arthur Edward Pipein and Dorothy Joyce Jelfs (Badsey). Adverts placed by: T E Wheatley, Poplars Garage, High Street; C Savage & Son, Builder; H Robinson, Manor Dairy; H E Wheatley, Butcher, High Street; C J Bird, Cycle Dealer & Repairer; H Floyd, Hairdresser, 27 Bridge Street, Evesham.
