Newspaper articles - Badsey and Aldington

Thursday 19 March 1835 - Jane Wright accused of stealing from Vicarage
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
Wednesday 16 February 1848 – Thomas Byrd of Aldington robbed on his way home from market
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
Saturday 26 April 1851 – Reverend William Byrd entertains workmen
Wednesday 18 June 1851 - Extraordinary charge against Reverend Charles Bloxham
Thursday 4 December 1851 – Disputes between Thomas B Langley of Badsey Mill and the Tewkesbury MP
Thursday 4 December 1851 – Thomas Bolland Langley of Badsey Silk Mill summoned under the Truck Act
Thursday 23 September 1852 – Thomas Bolland Langley defaults on payment
Wednesday 26 January 1853 – Joseph Knight’s housewarming dinner at The Wheatsheaf Inn, Badsey
Saturday 3 September 1853 – Alleged forgery by Thomas Bolland Langley at Badsey
Wednesday 3 January 1855 – Badsey Patriotic Fund Ball at the Mill
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
Saturday 7 September 1861 – Richard Ingles of The Royal Oak granted spirit licence
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 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 Rogers’ 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 8 December 1888 – Annual Tea Meeting at Aldington
Saturday 5 January 1889 – Aldington Sunday School Treat
Saturday 19 January 1889 – Thomas Byrd campaigns for County Council
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 5 March 1892 – Thomas Byrd returned unopposed as County Councillor
Saturday 13 August 1892 – Arthur Savory’s report on the harvest in Aldington
Saturday 29 October 1892 - 100 years ago, blossom in November in Badsey
Saturday 17 December 1892 – Letter concerning the footpath from Evesham to Badsey & Aldington
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 15 February 1896 – Edward Joseph Wilson sent to prison
Saturday 26 Jun 1897 – Diamond Jubilee celebrations at Badsey
Saturday 19 October 1901 – Retirement of Arthur H Savory of Aldington Manor
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 11 Oct 1902 – Proposal for a new church clock at Badsey
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 9 January 1904 – William Churchill imprisoned for passive resistance
Saturday 16 January 1904 – Triple entertainment in aid of Clock Fund
Saturday 26 March 1904 – Badsey passive resisters charged with non-payment of the poor rate
Saturday 8 October 1904 – Sale of goods belonging to “The Badsey Martyrs”
Saturday 15 April 1905 – The Horsman sisters’ garden at Aldington Lodge
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 8 January 1910 – Smoking concert in aid of The Pig Club
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 2 November 1918 – The Influenza epidemic
Tuesday 4 November 1919 - Building of Council Houses starts at Badsey
Saturday 22 May 1920 – The opening of Badsey Recreation Ground
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 6 November 1920 – Progress of Council Houses
Saturday 16 October 1926 – Sale of house and land at Sands Lane, Badsey
Saturday 2 July 1927 – Sir Julius Sladden, 80, and Edwin Knight, 83, celebrate their birthdays
Saturday 24 September 1927 – Body found at Frances’ Grave
Saturday 24 May 1930 – Thomas Knight is knocked off his bike in Badsey
Saturday 14 February 1931 – Badsey Empire Crusade Association
Saturday 3 October 1931 – Badsey Pig Club supper
Saturday 10 December 1932 – Wheatsheaf licence extension refused
Saturday 17 December 1932 – Annual Pig Club Dinner
1934 - Midnight blaze at bungalow on Willersey Road
Saturday 24 March 1934 – Annual Pig Club Dinner
Saturday 13 Apr 1935 – Plans for the Silver Jubilee
Saturday 11 May 1935 – King George V’s Silver Jubilee celebrations in Badsey
Saturday 29 Jun 1935 – Final meeting of the Badsey Jubilee Committee
Wednesday 10 July 1935 - William David Ellison seriously injured
Wednesday 11 December 1935 – Eunice Knight and Nancy Merriman involved in car accident
Saturday 21 August 1937 – John Douglas Pethard drowns in Austria
Saturday 13 August 1938 – Peal Board unveiled at Badsey Church in memory of Douglas Pethard
Saturday 8 October 1938 – Special church service to mark Alfred Sparrow’s 90th birthday
Saturday 1 April 1939 – Charles Tutton of Blackminster awarded gold medal for public speaking
Saturday 11 November 1939 – Choir Stalls unveiled at Badsey Church in memory of Douglas Pethard
Saturday 13 January 1940 – Entertainment for Troops organized by the Women’s Institute
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 29 November 1941 – Whist Drive
Saturday 27 June 1942 – Corporal Norman Hall wounded
Saturday 18 July 1942 – Sydney John Vale taken prisoner; Stanley Hatch picks up message
Saturday 8 January 1944 – Philip Sparrow, a prisoner in Java
Saturday 18 March 1944 - Albert Keen prosecuted for displaying a light from his greenhouse
Saturday 14 October 1944 – Sergeant Hubert Crane and his nephew, Petty Officer Wilfred Padfield
Saturday 21 October 1944 – The war-time record of the Jones Family
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 18 August 1945 – Evesham celebrates VJ Day
Saturday 25 August 1945 – VJ celebrations in Badsey
Saturday 22 September 1945 – Philip Sparrow liberated from prisoner of war camp
Saturday 27 October 1945 – Philip Sparrow arrives home in Badsey
Saturday 24 August 1946 – Electricity in Church in memory of Ronald William Ballard
Saturday 1 March 1947 – Workshop Fire at Blackminster
Saturday 15 March 1947 – Snow drifts block roads in Badsey and Wickhamford
Saturday 10 May 1947 – Aldington, a hamlet with a long history
Saturday 9 August 1947 – Complaints about state of footpath at Synehurst
Saturday 9 August 1947 – German Prisoners of War in the Vale of Evesham
Saturday 27 March 1948 – Signalman Charles Tutton’s success as public speaker
Saturday 26 June 1948 – Charles Tutton honoured at Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes meeting
Saturday 26 June 1948 – Pig Club annual dinner
Saturday 14 August 1948 – French Scouts at Badsey
Friday 31 August 1948 – Evelyn Sandford injured in accident
Saturday 2 October 1948 – Frank Tutton of Blackminster appointed as Chief Audit Clerk
Friday 24 June 1949 – Badsey Pig Club’s Progress
Friday 16 September 1949 – Renumbering of houses at Synehurst, Synehurst Crescent and Synehurst Avenue
Friday 30 June 1950 – Badsey Pig Club’s annual supper
Wednesday 22 November 1950 – Aldington wants Parish Council
Friday 8 December 1950 – Protest against orchard building site in centre of Badsey
Friday 6 July 1951 – More space needed in Badsey for a playing field
Saturday 27 September 1952 – Raising Money for Bus Shelters
Friday 23 January 1953 – Plans for the Coronation celebrations
Friday 24 July 1953 – Disbanding of Badsey Pig Club
Friday 18 January 1957 – Badsey village sign broken in half
Friday 21 June 1957 – Strawberry tea at Totterdown, Aldington
Friday 20 September 1957 - Thomas Henry Marshall returns to Badsey as postmaster
Friday 19 December 1958 – Council to modernise houses at Synehurst, Badsey
Friday 3 April 1959 – The Badsey Dysentery Epidemic
Friday 8 February 1963 – Harsh winter affects Badsey market gardeners
Friday 22 July 1966 – Petrol filling station application at Brook Meadow, Synehurst, Badsey, refused
Thursday 5 August 1976 – Fish rescued at Aldington Mill Pond
June 1977 – Pig roast for Badsey Silver Jubilee festivities
Thursday 23 June 1977 – Mrs Stewart remembers an earlier Silver Jubilee celebration
Thursday 30 June 1977 – Flying the flag from the Wellingtonia tree
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
Friday 20 January 1995 – Frank Jelfs celebrates his 100th birthday
Thursday 8th February 1996 – Badsey Blacksmith, David Caswell
Tuesday 23 February 1999 – Trapped in the vestry so ring out SOS in morse
Thursday 16th May 2019 – Plan to demolish Riverside Hotel, Aldington