Newspaper articles - Badsey and Aldington

Thursday 22 May 1828 - Death of Mrs Scardefield in Badsey Brook
Thursday 19 March 1835 - Jane Wright accused of stealing from Vicarage
Thursday 3 November 1836 - Death of Mrs Mary Hope Bloxham
Thursday 2 September 1841 – Drowning of William Harris
Thursday 3 April 1845 – Joseph Knight steals a sheepskin
Thursday 11 September 1845 – Sophy Harris wins prize
Wednesday 22 July 1846 – Charles and William Knight quit Parsonage Farm, Badsey
Saturday 25 March 1848 – Action brought against Reverend Thomas Gilbert Griffith for non-payment of debt
Saturday 10 June 1848 - Rev Charles Bloxham left inn without paying
Wednesday 4 September 1850 – James Knight convicted of striking a person
Wednesday 18 June 1851 - Extraordinary charge against Reverend Charles Bloxham
Wednesday 26 January 1853 – Joseph Knight’s housewarming dinner at The Wheatsheaf Inn, Badsey
Wednesday 9 April 1856 – Charles Knight steals six loaves of bread from John Cook
Wednesday 4 November 1857 – Knight family quarrel
Saturday 26 November 1859 – Robert Hemming, Attwood brothers, Charles Knight, Albert Walker steal apples
Wednesday 18 March 1863 - Theft of turnip tops from Thomas Byrd
Wednesday 17 June 1863 – Charles Knight and Caleb Weaver attempt to steal fish
Saturday 29 July 1865 – Brothers Charles and George Knight accused of stealing a ham
Saturday 31 March 1866 – Asparagus cultivation at Badsey
Saturday 16 January 1869 – Badsey Self-Improvement Association
Saturday 20 February 1869 – Marriage of George Field and Elizabeth Hambler
Saturday 8 May 1869 - Badsey Wake
Saturday 30 April 1870 – Badsey Vestry Meeting
Wednesday 8 June 1870 – Samuel Knight and John Wheatley fined for being drunk and disorderly
Saturday 5 April 1873 - Sale of Oliver Roger’s household furniture
Saturday 9 August 1879 – Solomon Knight ordered to contribute to support of his mother
Saturday 30 October 1886 – Albert Chevallier Tayler, artist, charged with riding a bicycle without a light
Saturday 5 January 1889 – Aldington Sunday School Treat
Saturday 26 January 1889 - Election of Thomas Byrd
Saturday 6 April 1889 - Badsey’s Water Supply
Saturday 6 April 1889 – Badsey Church Restoration Fund
Saturday 4 May 1889 – Service of Song at Aldington Baptist Mission
Saturday 27 July 1889 - Bad water at Badsey
Saturday 3 August 1889 – Arthur Hawker suffers serious gun accident
Saturday 3 August 1889 – Badsey Flower Show
Saturday 3 August 1889 – Charles Hall robbed by a tramp
Saturday 7 December 1889 – Arthur Hawker making satisfactory progress after gun accident
Saturday 14 February 1891 - Joseph Jones brings action against Great Western Railway Company
Saturday 25 April 1891 – Richard Knight fatally injured at Eccles
Saturday 29 October 1892 - 100 years ago, blossom in November in Badsey
Saturday 29 October 1892 – Death of William Barnard
Saturday 29 October 1892 – Marriage of John Kenelm Woodward
Saturday 13 January 1894 – George Knight and George Jelfs refuse to leave Mrs Wright’s beerhouse
Saturday 22 December 1894 – John Woodward beats Joseph Knight in Urban & Rural District Council election
Saturday 22 December 1894 – Parish Council Election at Badsey
Saturday 16 November 1895 - Badsey people charged at Evesham Court
Saturday 18 July 1896 – Richard Pendlebury beats Joseph Knight in Council election
Saturday 10 August 1901 - Edmund Ballard, Burial Sensation
Saturday 1 February 1902 - Marriage of Cynthia Savory
Saturday 19 April 1902 - Coronation Day
Saturday 7 June 1902 - Rose Garden Fete and the Coronation
Saturday 2 August 1902 - Crops
Monday 18 August 1902 – Advert for Schoolmaster at Badsey School
Saturday 25 October 1902 – Contract signed for two new treble bells
Saturday 1 November 1902 - Reading Room
Saturday 20 December 1902 - The Church Bells
Saturday 24 January 1903 - Smoking Concert at Badsey
Saturday 16 January 1904 – Triple entertainment in aid of Clock Fund
Saturday 29 July 1905 – Open-air gathering in Hay where William Seward died in the 18th century
Saturday 5 August 1905 - Scheme of Sewerage and Sewage Disposal
Saturday 5 January 1907 - Sladden family amateur theatricals
Saturday 14 March 1908 – Proposal to raise funds for a new organ at Badsey Church
Saturday 24 October 1908 – Pictures in Badsey Church
Saturday 1 January 1910 – Badsey Sunday School prize-giving
Saturday 24 June 1911 – Coronation festivities in Badsey and Aldington
Saturday 4 May 1912 – Permission granted for drinking fountain on site of old village pump
Saturday 29 June 1912 – Opening of the drinking fountain
Saturday 21 September 1912 – Sale of Percy Byrd’s property
Saturday 14 February 1914 - Death of Henry Stewart
Saturday 2 November 1918 – The Influenza epidemic
Saturday 15 February 1919 – Death of Thomas Byrd of Aldington
Saturday 22 February 1919 – Death of Thomas Byrd of Aldington
Tuesday 4 November 1919 - Building of Council Houses starts at Badsey
Saturday 17 July 1920 - Eight Council Houses occupied at Badsey
Monday 26 July 1920 – “Grain and Chaff from an English Manor” by Arthur H Savory
Saturday 14 August 1920 - Council House rents to be raised
Saturday 2 July 1927 – Sir Julius Sladden, 80, and Edwin Knight, 83, celebrate their birthdays
Saturday 2 February 1929 – Death of Octogenarian Edwin Knight
Saturday 1 June 1929 – Death of 43-year-old Edwin Knight at Littleton
Saturday 14 February 1931 – Badsey Empire Crusade Association
Saturday 23 April 1932 – Death of William Keen
1934 - Midnight blaze at bungalow on Willersey Road
Wednesday 10 July 1935 - William David Ellison seriously injured
Wednesday 11 December 1935 – Eunice Knight and Nancy Merriman involved in car accident
Saturday 19 December 1936 – Death of Eliza Keen, aged 85
Saturday 22 January 1938 – Death of John Henry Keen
Saturday 5 February 1938 – Death of John Keen, aged 80
Saturday 8 October 1938 – Special church service to mark Alfred Sparrow’s 90th birthday
Saturday 28 January 1939 - Death of Thomas Sadler
Saturday 18 May 1940 – Death of Sapper Denis Hartwell
Saturday 21 September 1940 – Death and funeral of Lance Corporal George Alfred Hall
Saturday 11 January 1941 – Wedding of Private Charles William Haines
Saturday 16 August 1941 – Private James Henry Chamberlain killed whilst saving children
Saturday 25 October 1941 – William Mustoe celebrates 100th birthday
Saturday 8 November 1941 – Francis Wheeler and Doris Haynes rescue man from burning plane
Saturday 22 November 1941 – Wedding of Thomas James Sadler
Saturday 29 November 1941 – Funeral of Ronald William Ballard
Saturday 29 November 1941 – Whist Drive
Saturday 31 January 1942 – Death and funeral of the widow of Lance Corporal George Alfred Hall
Saturday 31 January 1942 – Wedding of John William Frederick Hartwell
Saturday 27 June 1942 – Corporal Norman Hall wounded
Saturday 11 December 1943 – Death of Gunner Walter Edmund Warmington
Saturday 18 March 1944 - Albert Keen prosecuted for displaying a light from his greenhouse
Saturday 19 August 1944 – Death of centenarian William Mustoe
Saturday 14 October 1944 – Sergeant Hubert Crane and his nephew, Petty Officer Wilfred Padfield
Saturday 22 July 1944 – Arthur Jones donates Bronze Age axe to Cheltenham Museum
Saturday 19 May 1945 – VE Day in Badsey
Saturday 19 May 1945 – VE Day Service and Parade
Saturday 24 August 1946 – Electricity in Church in memory of Ronald William Ballard
Saturday 8 February 1947 – Death of Albert Edward Evans in a car crash
Saturday 19 April 1947 – Death of Canon William Carmont Allsebrook
Saturday 3 January 1948 – Silver Wedding of Mr & Mrs Fred Stewart
Saturday 17 January 1948 – Death of Agnes Clara Hall
Saturday 20 November 1948 – Death of Harry Keen, aged 64
Friday 11 March 1949 – Death of Dunkirk veteran, Rupert Ivor Hewlett
Friday 14 September 1951 – Death of Norah Esther Tyler Keen, aged 45
Saturday 27 September 1952 – Raising Money for Bus Shelters
Friday 23 January 1953 – Death of Winifred Collett
Friday 23 January 1953 – Plans for the Coronation celebrations
Friday 18 January 1957 – Badsey village sign broken in half
Saturday 11 May 1957 - Death of Arthur Franklin Sadler
Friday 13 February 1959 – Death of Alice Louisa Keen, aged 75
Saturday 16 March 1963 – Death of Wilfred George Geden
Saturday 24 September 1966 – Death of Charles Henry Gardiner
Thursday 15 April 1976 – Death of Mrs Lilian Mary Hatcher
Thursday 15 April 1976 – Death of Philip Henry Sparrow
Monday 18 October 1976 – Philip Hall killed in a car crash on Badsey Road
1985 – Cleaning up the drinking fountain
Friday 2 October 1987 – Farewell to Buster Mustoe of The Round of Gras
1988c – Family History Lives on in town Museum
Thursday 8th February 1996 – Badsey Blacksmith, David Caswell
Tuesday 23 February 1999 – Trapped in the vestry so ring out SOS in morse