Photo Gallery - Fungi
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Photo Gallery - Plants
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Photo Gallery - Mammals
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Saturday 9 March 1895 - Game Trespass at Wickhamford
Henry Brooks, John Staite and James Huxley, labourers of Wickhamford, were charged, on information of the Rev. W. C. Corry, Vicar of Bengeworth, with trespassing in search of game on land in the occupation of Mr. Charles Byrd. Rev. Corry rented a field for shooting called Wet Furrows, with an adjoining coppice. Ann, wife of James Willoughby, saw Huxley and Brooks at 4.30 p.m.
Saturday 19 October 1901 – Retirement of Arthur H Savory of Aldington Manor
RETIRED
Mr Arthur H Savory of Aldington Manor, who has been a successful agriculturist, has just relinquished farming in this district. Acknowledging a handsome presentation made to him by the Badsey Rangers Football Club the other night, he said that in his 28 years at Aldington he had spent £1000 a year in labour, another £1000 a year in rent, rates, cattle, etc, and another £1000 a year in manures etc, so that he ought to have made his fortune and let someone else have a turn.
PETHARD, John Douglas (1913-1937) – Drowned in Austria
Doug Pethard had all to live for. A local Badsey lad made good, he had achieved success both at school and university and on the sports field, he was a devoted member of St James’ Church and had recently embarked on a career in teaching. But one fateful evening in August 1937, this all came to an end when he was drowned in a lake in Austria. He was aged just 23.
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PETHARD, William George (1866-1908) – Fruit grower and commission agent
At the turn of the 20th century, one of the most prominent fruit and vegetable dealers in Badsey was William Pethard who lived at The Poplars on the High Street.
Saturday 15 April 1905 – The Horsman sisters’ garden at Aldington Lodge
In the “Lady’s Pictorial” this week appears an article with illustrations, giving an account of what is being done by a Worcestershire lady in the pursuit of horticulture. “Miss Marion Horsman, with her sister and a friend,” says the writer, “live at a charming spot known as Aldington Lodge, about a mile and a half out of Evesham, and in the very heart of the finest gardening land in England. Anyone paying a visit to Miss Horsman would be sceptical that she and her friend, Miss East, could carry out all the work that there is to be done.