The following information is accredited by the Evesham historian, E.A.B. Barnard, to Sir Thomas Phillipps of Middle Hill, Broadway. Barnard says Phillipps was always very exact, but that the documents “are no longer available” (writing in 1935). The Manor of Wickhamford was leased to Field Whorwood by Samuel Sandys, his wife Mary and mother Penelope, on 15th February 1637, for 40 years.
On 17th July 1947 George Lees-Milne completed the sale of Wickhamford Manor plus six and a half acres of land for £10,400. The purchasers were three siblings: married sisters, Cynthia Muriel Batty (1909-2006) and Joyce Dorothy Sandys-Lumsdaine (1910-2000) and their younger brother, Patrick George Leeson (1915-1997). The trio were children of George William Leeson (1875-1951), who had been an engineer in India and his wife, Bertha (1882-1964).
BRONZE AGE AXE
The prehistoric collections at the Cheltenham Museum have been enriched by the addition of a bronze socketed axe. This axe was found near Chipping Campden some little time ago, and passed into the possession of Mr A E Jones of Badsey, Evesham.
It belongs to the late Bronze Age, which began at about BC 1000 and went on until the Early Iron Age which started at BC 500.
Lodge Park Drive has a postal address of Evesham but is located in the parish of Aldington and the Badsey ward/electoral division. The road is so-called because it is named after Aldington Lodge which was built on the land in 1858 and demolished in December 2018.
George Mourilyan Sladden (1886-1948) was a member of a territorial unit, the 15th (Prince of Wales’ Own Civil Service Rifles) Battalion, The London Regiment. When war broke out in August 1914, they were serving as part of 4th London Brigade, 2nd London Division. The Division had just arrived for their annual summer camp on Salisbury Plain; they were at once recalled to their home base and mobilized for war service. George first went overseas in March 1915. He served in France until October 1918.
In about 1860, Dilnot Sladden, the elder brother of Julius Sladden, emigrated to New Zealand. Descendants of Dilnot Sladden still live in New Zealand today. All the photos on this page have been provided by Patsy Miller (née Sladden), a keen member of The Badsey Society, who volunteered to play the part of her great-great-aunt, Eugénie Sladden, in the Sladden letter-reading evenings.
Eugénie Narcisse Mourilyan married Julius Sladden in December 1877 in Paris. The photos on this page are either from the Sladden archive at Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service at The Hive in Worcester, or are scanned images of photos owned by descendants.
On Friday 20th June 1930, a group of children from Badsey Council School were outside during their lunch break. Some were playing on a heap of chippings in the road when four-year-old Ronald Summers fell and was hit by a passing lorry.
