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.
MR BYRD’S CANDIDATURE – NOISY MEETING AT BROADWAY
Badsey - The Rev W Byrd of Badsey entertained on the 15th inst, in an apartment fitted up for the occasion, a large number of workmen, who had completed the erection of certain buildings near his house. The supply of the good things consisted of several legs and other joints of “boiled and roast”, served up in the best style, with vegetables the produce of the Rev Gentlemen’s garden. Mr Byrd presided, and his health was rapturously given and neatly responded to.
EVESHAM OPEN VERDICT, ALDINGTON MAN FOUND DROWNED – Possibilities of fall into water
The District Coroner (Mr H Basil Harrison) returned a verdict of “Found drowned” at an Evesham inquest on Tuesday night on Thomas Byrd, aged 54, of 100 Commercial Road, Southampton, and formerly of Aldington, whose body was recovered from a lock at Aldington Mill on Sunday morning. Mr H J H Saunders represented deceased’s two sisters.
On 4th December 1911, E G Righton & Son were instructed to sell at auction property and land at Badsey and Aldington. The notice which appeared in the newspaper did not say who the vendor was, but we know from the nationwide Valuation Survey that the owner was Thomas Byrd Junior of Ivy House, Aldington.
On 14th January 1717, Samuel Sandys leased Wickhamford Manor for 16 years, at £200 a year, to Thomas Timbrill, yeoman of Wickhamford.
Telegrams from the Queen and Mr Peter Lilley, Secretary of State at the Department of Social Security, were delivered to Mr Frank Jelfs as he celebrated his 100th birthday on Tuesday.
