Monthly parish magazine, price 3d per month. Named personnel on front: Vicar, Rev W B Chapman; Badsey (Churchwardens, Mr G A King, Mr G A Jones; PCC Treasurer, Mr C A Binyon; PCC Secretary, Miss M E Sladden; Wickhamford (Churchwardens, Mr G C Lees Milne, Mr G Agg; PCC Treasurer, Mr G C Lees Milne; PCC Secretary, Mrs E Cooke). Includes separate letters from the vicar W B Chapman to Badsey & Aldington (thanks to Mr Henry King for carol service choir training; Mr & Mrs Floyd moving to Norton; sympathy to relatives of late Mrs Harrison and of late Miss Pansy Hutchings) and Wickhamford (Mothers' Union meeting, Mrs Heather presented a prayer book to Mrs Pearce; Sunday School annual prize-giving by Mr Pearce and Mr Sturt, tribute to work of teachers, Miss Cox, Miss Lawley, Miss Avis Colley; Mr C A Binyon to talk at January meeting of Men's Fellowship on Reminiscences of a JP). Badsey notes: Mothers’ Union; Sanctuary Guild; Men’s Fellowship (Mr E W Sturt; Mr C E Miller, headmaster of Prince Henry’s Grammar School; report by M G Savory); Sunday School (prize distribution by churchwardens Messrs King and Jones); Youth Fellowship (return table tennis match against Scouts; D Edwards beat C Andrew, G Jones beat C Perkins, D Brazier beat L Grinnell, B Jennings lost to K Mitchell, M Salter lost to J Bennett, D Barrand lost to R Sandford, N Harris lost to J Andrew, T Sparrow lost to A Vale); missionary boxes received from Mrs Harvey, David Rouse. Reports of village organisations: Women’s Institute (21st birthday party, 90 members present including Mrs S B Carter, president, Mrs Byrd, president of Bretforton WI, Mrs Berry, former treasurer now living at Malvern; aplogies from Mrs Caldecott, president of Offenham WI, Mrs E Carter, former president; first secretary and treasurer, Miss Jones, invited to cut the birthday cake made by Mrs Whitford; Mrs Savory, on behalf of the Canning Club, presented Mrs Sadler with a fruit set; competitions won by Mrs Pratley, Mrs T Perkins, Mrs E Mitchell, Mrs F Sandford, Mrs R Rouse, Mrs F Haines, Mrs A Reed, Mrs E Wheatley, Mrs R Hartwell, Mrs Jennings, Mrs Floyd, Mrs A L Byrd, Mrs A W Sparrow; report by N E Keen); British Legion Women’s Section (branch meeting at The Bell Inn presided over by Mrs W Keen; competitions won by Mrs F Barnard, I E Homans, Colin Harwood, Terry Brotherton, Miss P Keen, Mrs C Haines, Mrs T Keen, Mrs W D Sparrow, Mrs Plimmer, Mrs Waldren, Miss B Collins, Mr D Harwood, Mrs Simmonds, C G Beechey, John Clarke, W Hartwell, Mr D Jelfs, Mr V Barnes, Miss L Hartwell, Miss C Barnard, Mrs F Barnard, Mrs Dungworth; Mrs Warmington presented with clock by Mrs W B Chapman; report by K Cleaver). Baptisms - Roger John Remington Powell, Gillian Norma Grove, David Glyndwr Pritchard, David George Caunter (Badsey). Burials - Maud Naomi Harrison, Edith Pansy Hutchings (Badsey). Adverts placed by: T E Wheatley; C Savage & Son; H Robinson; H E Wheatley; C J Bird; H Floyd.
