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
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.
In Wickhamford there were only five telephones:
EVESHAM AND THE WAR
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.
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.
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.
