Quarterly Badsey Society newsletter sent to members. Events: Badsey Flower Show including archaeological display and visit to Hornsfield Nurseries. Future events: talk on turnpikes by Robin Neill: AGM; trip to Stanway Mill; 2012 Whit Walk and Badsey Flower Show. Badsey Women’s Institute started by Mrs Daphne Bell in 1951 is mentioned in new book “The Women’s Institute” by Susan Cohen. Article on Sands Lane Hovel (a market gardener’s hut and now used by Robert Bindoff) which was tenanted by John Keen and owned by the J P Lord Estate at time of 1913 Land Valuation Survey. Exhibition of documents at Wickhamford Fete including photographs loaned by Simon Lees-Milne, grandson of George Lees-Milne of Wickhamford Manor. Committee members: Mike Lovatt (Chairman), Maureen Spinks (Secretary), Terry Sparrow (Treasurer), Will Dallimore, Ian Gibson, Valerie Magan, Jane Neill, Richard Phillips, Neil Thould.