Leesa Sandys-Lumsdaine died in Jedburgh, Scotland, on 20th December 1985. Her connection to Wickhamford is that her mother, Joyce Sandys-Lumsdaine, and two of her siblings, bought Wickhamford Manor form George Lees-Milne in 1947.   Joyce, her brother Patrick George Leeson and sister Cynthia Murial Batty paid £10,400 for the Manor and six and a half acres of land (see Leeson Family at Wickhamford Manor).

Frank Banner was a Licensed Victualler and Market Gardener in Wickhamford and various entries concerning him appear on the Badsey Society website.  This article brings all of that information together and, with other details of his life, makes an interesting biography of the man.

In the 1939 Register for Badsey (a census taken shortly after the outbreak of war of all civilians living in Great Britain and Northern Ireland), a 53-year-old single man by the name of George Lloyd was listed as resident on A Jones & Son’s Land, Sands Lane.  He was living in a hovel (demolished many years ago) on his employer’s land.

Why was he living there?  What were the circumstances that led him to a hovel in Badsey?  Read on to find out his story.

A recent article on the website about The Wheatsheaf Darts Team of 1949 has prompted Terry Sparrow to write to us to correct a misunderstanding.  Thomas Henry Marshall (1898-1979), always known as Harry, was never the landlord of The Wheatsheaf, although his father, also Thomas, certainly was.  Terry provides us with more details about the Marshall family.