Quarterly Badsey Society Heritage Lottery Fund Last Market Gardener Project newsletter distributed to the whole parish. Information on our growing collection of archive documents and museum items. Contains a profile of a market gardening family, the Hartwell family, originally from Ebrington. Article on development of Willersey Road, formerly parts of which were known as Three Ways; Wickhamford Road; The Green and Bully Brook Lane. In 1888 four plots of land were sold to the same family: Charles, Theodore James and Owen Joseph Hall plus Joseph’s brother-in-law Henry Keen and they all built homes (photographs included). Later more land for housing was sold by the Trustees of Captain J P Lord. Article on a project at Badsey First School where we would exhibit our market gardening tools/reflect on Badsey and Aldington at the time of the 1911 census. “Jon the Potter” and the pupils would then produce an outdoor mural reflecting the occupations and land-use in Badsey in 1911.
