Newspaper articles - Wickhamford

Saturday 7 October 1809 - Sale of Stock at Mr Holland's Upper Farm
Monday 28 June 1824 - Sale of Leasehold Estates and Tithes
Thursday 16 June 1831 - Aaron Evans, Worcestershire Regiment of Militia Defaulter
Saturday 5 November 1831 – Henry Giles steals property from William Belcher
Thursday 7 February 1833 - New house adjoining the Turnpike Road
Thursday 9 January 1834 - Sale of Timber at The Sandys Arms
Thursday 13 May 1841 - Inquest on Death of Thomas Sharpe
Wednesday 7 January 1846 - Theft at Mr Taylor's by William Shillon, John Winnett, William Cook
Thursday 24 September 1846 - Ploughing Trials in a Field belonging to Samuel Taylor
Wednesday 10 May 1848 - Crisp, Wheatley, Floyd and Knight from Badsey fined for playing ball on a Sunday
Wednesday 19 December 1849 - Thomas Heeks & Thomas Howes accused of robbery at Samuel Taylor's house
Saturday 26 October 1850 - Baby left at George Parker's House
Wednesday 15 January 1851 - John Begley, James Begley, Henry Ellison, John Gray accused of stealing hay
Wednesday 12 March 1851 - Thomas Taylor accused of Arson
Wednesday 2 May 1851 - Alfred Bearcroft accidentally caused fire in the rickyard of Mr Samuel Taylor
Wednesday 3 May 1854 - Wool stolen from dead sheep belonging to Samuel Taylor
Wednesday 11 April 1855 - Thomas Taylor of Murcot jailed for stealing a lamb belonging to Samuel Taylor
Saturday 12 December 1857 - Thomas Daffy sentenced for stealing timber from Amelia Pethard
Wednesday 12 January 1859 - James Brooks charged with stealing from Henry Tarplee
Wednesday 3 August 1859 – Elizabeth Howes summoned for using abusive language towards Elizabeth Edkins
Wednesday 16 November 1863 - Hannah Hall, aged 83, accidentally burnt to death
Wednesday 27 July 1864 - Wesleyan tea meeting at Mr Smith's Wickhamford Mill
Saturday 5 May 1866 - Sale of Livestock and Implements at Field Farm
Saturday 12 December 1868 - Stag Hunt in Worcestershire
Saturday 26 May 1869 - Sale of Wickhamford Manor and the Wickhamford Estate
Saturday 16 April 1870 - Advert for someone to manage a small cheese dairy, apply Mrs F Taylor
Saturday 16 March 1872 - Thatched cottages destroyed by fire
Saturday 11 Jan 1873 – Entertainment at Wickhamford Tithe Barn
Saturday 5 April 1879 - To let, Pitchers Hill Farm
Saturday 23 October 1880 - Joseph Colley accused of theft
Saturday 1 January 1881 - Death of William Wallington Pope from overdose of chlorodyne
Saturday 8 April 1882 - Parish Chest in Wickhamford Church broken open
Saturday 5 August 1882 – Who was Mrs Grey?
Saturday 28 July 1883 - John Smith, Miller, summoned for being drunk
Saturday 27 December 1884 -Frederick and George Pethard of The Sandys Arms assaulted
Saturday 5 December 1885 - Decimus Agg and Walter Butler of the Grenadier Guards summoned for assault
Saturday 28 May 1887 - Shooting competition at Wickhamford range
Saturday 23 March 1889 - Frederick Wingfield, tramp, imprisoned for stealing from Mr Pope
Saturday 31 August 1889 - T F Shekell, R F Tomes, W H Ashwin, Job Winnett, theft from Mr C Bird
Saturday 21 February 1891 - Joseph Taylor accused of stealing from John Pope
Saturday 25 March 1893 - James Willoughby fined for not sending his son, James, regularly to school
Friday 30 June 1893 - Walter Byrd asked to communicate with George Pethard of The Sandys Arms
Saturday 3 February 1894 - Bankrupty Examination of Frederick William Bullock
Saturday 21 Apr 1894 – Charles Stanford of Wickhamford Mill accused of being drunk
Saturday 3 November 1894 - Benjamin Carter charged with allowing colts to stray on to the highway
Saturday 9 March 1895 - Game Trespass at Wickhamford
Saturday 1 June 1895 - Charles Gillett accused by John Pope of stealing a hoe
Saturday 13 July 1895 – Zephaniah Belcher brings complaint against Joseph Eades
Saturday 14 March 1896 – William Bennett claims for damages done to a crop of cabbages at Wickhamford
Saturday 17 October 1896 - Failure of Potato Seed at Joseph Pope's Farm
Thursday 30 September 1897 - Sudden death of Edith Martin
Saturday 28 September 1898 - Illegal fishing in Wickhamford Brook
Saturday 8 April 1899 – Entertainments in aid of the fund for repairs of Wickhamford Church
Saturday 26 August 1899 - Death of 88-year-old Charles Hardiman
Friday 18 January 1901 - Sergeant Sidney Carter returns home invalided from South Africa
Saturday 6 July 1901 – Rider Haggard stays at Wickhamford Manor
Thursday 22 August 1901 - Bazaar at Wickhamford Manor in aid of the church restoration fund
Saturday 24 August 1901 – Wickhamford and the Washingtons
Saturday 6 December 1902 - Meeting of the Creditors of Robert Heritage
Wednesday 4 February 1903 - Mr B Carter, Proprietor of a restaurant called Wickhamford Dairy
Tuesday 22 September 1903 - Arthur Edwin Thorne summoned for non-payment of poor rate
Saturday 25 November 1905 – Allen Halford trespasses at Field Farm
June 1909 - Garden Party at The Farm, Wickhamford
Thursday 23 May 1912 - Harry Halford killed by lightning
Saturday 17 June 1916 – Four-year-old Gladys Turner knocked down by car
Saturday 30 September 1916 - Lieutenant J M Drysdale wounded in an air-fight
Saturday 22 August 1925 - William Skene Ross, employee of Mr Lees-Milne, died of poisoning
Saturday 19 March 1927 - Frank Banner of The Sandys Arms declared bankrupt
Friday 22 April 1927 - Field Farm to be sold at auction
Monday 26 March 1928 - Burning bungalow at Wickhamford
Saturday 11 April 1931 - Wedding of Audrey Lees-Milne
Tuesday 31 January 1933 - James and George Moisey accused of assaulting Joseph Henry Plant
Saturday 1 April 1933 - Emily Hartwell, England's oldest woman sexton
Monday 2 July 1934 - James Dolphin accused of obstructing a stall on the Evesham-Broadway road
Saturday 20 July 1935 - Summer meeting of Evesham Deanery Mothers' Union
Saturday 28 September 1935 - George Sutton accused of assault by Mrs Eva Dolphin
Wednesday 1 April 1936 - Porch at The Sandys Arms demolished by a lorry
Saturday 25 April 1936 - Messrs J Taylor & Son permitted to develop their site
Thursday 27 August 1936 - Aeroplane lands in a field near Wickhamford as a result of pilot losing his map
Monday 22 February 1937 - Ethel Mary M Dixon, Weathervane Cottage, driving without a licence
Tuesday 6 April 1937 - Charles William Wilkins died as the result of a cycling accident
Saturday 4 September 1937 - Frank Halford in hospital as a result of a plum-picking accident
Wednesday 6 April 1938 - BBC broadcast "Down on the Farm", items by C A Binyon, Ted Carter, John Spragg
Monday 25 July 1938 - George and Annie Sutton of Pitchers Hill summoned for using indecent language
Saturday 6 August 1938 – Vivian Charles Buckley, author, moves to Wickhamford
Saturday 20 August 1938 - Re-formation of Football Club
Tuesday 4 October 1938 - Mrs Emily Jane Field killed
Monday 15 May 1939 - Frederick J T Taylor summoned for driving a motor-cycle without a licence
Saturday 27 April 1940 – Wickhamford Women’s Voluntary Service Knitting Party
Saturday 1 June 1940 – The Honourable Mrs Beryl Ryder fined for keeping a dog without a licence
Tuesday 6 August 1940 - Commander & Mrs Loehnis' baby found dead in pram
Saturday 29 November 1941 – Charles Henry Cox, Paratroop
Tuesday 18 June 1946 - Boy of 13 fined for driving tractor on road
Saturday 11 January 1947 – Death of Miss Emily Empey
Friday 4 March 1955 – Death of Morton Taylor
Friday 24 September 1965 – Wickhamford Women’s Institute
1970c – Pioneering Days in Canada, Cox family: from Wickhamford to Alberta