Saturday 17 July 1915 – Gardeners and railway transit
GARDENERS AND RAILWAY TRANSIT
Saturday 22 April 1916 - Evesham Central Advisory Committee
THE EVESHAM CENTRAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Saturday 19 February 1916 – Setting up a military tribunal
EVESHAM RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL
MONDAY – Present: Messrs J H Bomford (Vice chairman in the Chair), F Cope, A Butler, A R Williams, S Cotterell, W Heming, T Bubb, J Ashwin, C A Binyon, H Taylor and the Rev G B Coopland. Mr J Smithin (Chairman) came in soon after the proceedings commenced, but he did not take the chair.
Saturday 30 October 1915 – The King’s appeal to the Nation
THE KING’S APPEAL TO THE NATION
The King has addressed the following message to the people, calling for an increased effort to ensure victory and an “enduring peace”.
Buckingham Palace
To My People
At this grave moment in the struggle between my people and a highly-organised enemy, who has transgressed the Laws of Nations, and has changed the ordinance that binds civilised Europe together, I appeal to you.
Land Girls – photos from the album of Joan Galloway
In February 2018, Tom Locke and Val Harman visited Mrs Joan Broscomb (née Galloway) who, as a young lady, joined in the Women's Land Army and was based at Wickhamford Manor during the Second World War. She had got in touch to say that she was the photographer of the photo which appeared in the article, Land Girls at Wickhamford Manor (w
BAYLISS, Ebenezer – Telephone Badsey 65, a transient resident of Wickhamford
In the late 1920s Badsey Telephone Exchange was opened, linking the local villages to the rest of the country by means of the telephone system. In the 1930 Badsey Exchange Telephone Directory there were numbers allocated from Badsey 2 to Badsey 65, although not every number in the sequence was still listed.
Wickhamford telephones
In Wickhamford there were only five telephones:
Saturday 8 August 1914 – Evesham and the outbreak of war
EVESHAM AND THE WAR
Wednesday 26 Dec 1917 – Arthur Thorne fined at Evesham for offence against “DORA”
CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR FINED AT EVESHAM
AN OFFENCE AGAINST “DORA”
At the Evesham County Petty Sessions on Monday, Arthur Edwin Thorne, market gardener, Pitcher’s Hill, Wickhamford, Evesham, was summoned under the Defence of the Realm Regulations for failing to post up in a conspicuous place on his premises a statement giving the names of his male employees between the ages of 18 and 41 on December 11, and also with failing to forward a copy of the form to the military authorities.
Tuesday 21 August 1917 – Illegal sale of horse at Evesham
ILLEGAL SALE OF HORSE AT EVESHAM
At Evesham yesterday, William James Jones, market gardener, Wickhamford, Evesham, was summoned under the Defence of the Realm Regulations for illegally selling a horse on July 30 without the authority or license of the Board of Agriculture, and James Randle, horse dealer, Evesham, was summoned for illegally purchasing the animal.
DEWSBERY, Thomas Asbery (1832-1886) – Briefly of Wickhamford Manor
Thomas’ surname appears in the various records of the time with different spellings, but for simplicity ‘Dewsbery’ will be used in this article, with a summary of the different versions at the end.