St James’ Church, Badsey, was a hive of activity on Bank Holiday Monday, 5th May, when upwards of 150 people and five dogs visited the church in the afternoon to commemorate the 80th anniversary of VE Day on 8th May. The event was organised jointly by the Parochial Church Council and The Badsey Society, with funding gratefully received from Badsey and Aldington Parish Council. Free tea, coffee and biscuits were served throughout.
Melancholy Catastrophe
We mentioned in our last, the distressing accident which occasioned the death of Mrs Scardefield of Badsey, in this county, on the 26th ultimate. We lament to announce now, that her husband has fallen by his own hand; he put a period to his existence, but cutting his throat with a razor. The afflicting accident which deprived him of his wife, deeply affected his mind; and there is too much reason to fear that some infamous reports propagated by the tongue of slander reached his ear and added a pang to his already wounded spirit.
The following advertisement appeared in The Morning Post of 22nd October 1813:
FREEHOLD ESTATE, VALE OF EVESHAM, Worcestershire
The following sale of two houses at Badsey [the present-day Harrington House and an unknown cottage] was advertised in The Worcester Journal of 28th August 1828:
BADSEY, WORCESTERSHIRE
Eligible FREEHOLD PROPERTY, either for
Investment or Occupation
TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION,
By GEORGE TREDWELL,
I decided to write this short article as a memorial to Brenda Carter, who I had known since I was a very young child, as her father had land next to my father’s land on Pitcher Hill. She was also well known by four generations of Wickhamford villagers.
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When the 1841 Census was carried out, on 6th June, one household in Wickhamford consisted of only four young girls – the Sharp family. These girls were listed as Ann, aged 18, Charlotte, aged 15, Eliza, aged 10 and Harriet, aged 8. The occupation of all of them was given as ‘silk throwster’. They would have worked at the Silk Mill in Badsey.
Market gardening produce grown in Badsey, Aldington and Wickhamford, was sent by freight train from either Littleton & Badsey Station or Aldington Station.
Every year, British Railways issued special traffic arrangements in connection with freight trains. The booklet pictured below was issued in July 1955 for the 1955 season, and gave the special arrangements in connection with the working of fruit and vegetable traffic at freight train rates, Worcester Operating District. A footnote at the bottom said:
THE GLADSTONIAN ROWDYISM AT BADSEY
At the Evesham County Petty Sessions on Monday before Alderman Averill (chairman) and Messrs F C Holland, R F Tomes, J Ashwin and T Adkins, Walter William Blake (24), gardener, Badsey, was summoned by Charles Jones, gardener, recently of Badsey, for assaulting and beating him on July 4th. A cross-summons charged Jones with assaulting Blake. Mr G L Eades appeared for Jones, and Mr W Tree (Worcester) for Blake.
ELECTION JOTTINGS – MR IMPEY AND THE VILLAGERS
LIBERAL MEETING AT BADSEY
MR IMPEY DRAWN THROUGH THE VILLAGE – DISTURBERS EJECTED
Mr F Impey, after addressing a meeting at Bretforton on Monday evening, drove to Badsey. On arriving at the top of the village, he was met by a number of persons, who then cheered him and took the horse from the conveyance and dragged the candidate in triumph to the bottom where the meeting was held.
