Thanks to an excellent “Old Documents Workshop” run by Alan and Shirley Tutton, a small group of members were able to decipher the will of Francis Horne who lived in Badsey for around a quarter of a century from the late 1620s until his death in 1653.
For a period in the 1950s, and up until 1967, the Wickhamford village stores and sub-post office was run by Major Jack Main and his wife Marie Berthe. From 1942, until the Mains took over, the shop had been in the hands of George Cox who ran the business from the downstairs of his house at 43 Pitchers Hill. He had tried to get planning permission to build a new store and sub-post office adjacent to his house in 1946, but this was not granted. The Mains were successful in a later application and new premises were built adjoining the house.
On 1st July 2012 the Olympic torch relay passed through Wickhamford along Pitchers Hill on its way from Evesham to Broadway.
Boys rescue dying fish
Several Vale of Evesham youngsters have given up their spare time to play Good Samaritans to some 50 dying fish. The boys noticed the fish fighting for their lives when they visited the Mill Pond at Aldington, which had virtually dried up.
HIGHWAY ROBBERY
As Mr Thomas Byrd of Aldington, near Evesham, was returning home from market on Monday night, two fellows rushed upon him and knocked him down in the ditch, when they rifled his pockets, taking his watch, money and umbrella, which latter was found on the following morning near the place where the ruffians effected their purpose, on the Bretforton Road.
The nominations of candidates for the County Council were handed to the Deputy Returning Officiers of the several divisions on Monday. Very few contests will take place, the old members being in the majority of instances re-elected. The election will take place on March 7th. The hours of polling are the same as in boroughs – viz, from 8 am to 8 pm. The following is a list of the local nominations:
The tenants’ wives and children under the tenancy of Mr Thomas Byrd (Aldington) had their annual meat tea meeting on Monday, given by their landlord and landlady. Upwards of 200 women and children were present and did justice to the beef and other good things provided for them. After tea they held a short entertainment. Mrs Byrd was voted to the chair, and the following programme was gone through and very well received:
COUNTY NEWS – MARRIAGE
At All Saints’ Church, Leamington, on Saturday, the marriage took place of Miss Ethel Holmden Phillips, daughter of the late Mr A Phillips of the Crown Hotel, Leamington, and Northwick Hotel, Evesham, and Mr Thomas Byrd, only son of Mr Thomas Byrd, JP, of Aldington. The bride was given away by her brother, Mr Thomas Edgar Phillips, and the best man was Mr Reginald Bomford. The bride was becomingly dressed in a costume of cream serge trimmed with silk braid and hat to match. The honeymoon is being spent in London.
