Aldington - Apples are a failure; trees have suffered from blight. Pears scarce. Plums: Victorias very scarce, Pershores, on high ground, a fair crop, low-lying ground scarcely any; damsons a very poor crop. Cherries a failure. Hay and clover good crop, and got well. Wheat an average crop. Beans, looking well. Peas fair crop; grey peas looking well. Oats and mangels looking well. No hops grown here. A H Butler.
Rose Garden Fete - It is proposed to hold an open air fete at Seward House, Badsey, early in July, in aid of Badsey Church Belfry Fund. Besides the attraction of Mr Sladden's rose garden, which should then be in full beauty, an open air vocal and instrumental concert is being arranged, a ping-pong tournament will be held, and other attractions provided. Full particulars will shortly appear in our advertisement columns.
The Coronation - A public meeting was held in the Old School last Tuesday evening to consider the question of celebrating the Coronation day with becoming loyalty. It was determined to give a dinner to adults and a tea for the children, and to provide suitable sports and amusements for the day. A committee was formed to undertake the raising of funds and to make other arrangements. It was also agreed that the parishioners of Aldington and Wickhamford should be invited to join in the Badsey celebration should they desire to do so. A subsequent d
IN PRECIOUS MEMORY OF
A Devoted
Husband, Loving
Dad and Grandad
JOHNNY
DAVIES
Born 10.1.1963
Died 26.2.2009
Aged 46
YOU MAKE ME LAUGH WHEN
I'M SAD. THAT'S WHAT MAKES
YOU A GREAT DAD
YOU ARE ONE OF A KIND
YOU ARE ALWAYS ON MY MIND
I WILL LOVE YOU ALL MY LIFE
AND SO WILL YOUR DARLING WIFE
YOU WILL SOON BE CUTTING A
TREE AND HOLDING LITTLE McKENZIE
AND JOHN-MICHAEL TOO
DON'T FORGET YOUR FAMILY WILL
ALWAYS LOVE YOU AND THAT'S WHY
Track Changes uses pairs of photographs to show how Badsey has altered over a period of about 75 years. The first six old pictures are from postcards sold at Badsey Post Office in the 1920s and reproduced with the kind permission of Pat Goldstraw. The new photographs were taken in 2001.
Further Track Changes photos have since been added.
NO ROAD FUND LICENCE
MOTOR-CYCLIST FINED AT EVESHAM
In addition to having his driving licence disqualified for 12 months, Frederick J.T. Taylor, of Council-Houses, Wickhamford, summoned for driving a motor-cycle without a Road Fund licence and a certificate of insurance, was fined a total of £2 10s. at Evesham County Petty Sessions to-day.
His licence was endorsed.
MOTORIST COMMITTED ON MANSLAUGHTER
CHARGE AT EVESHAM
The sequel to a fatal accident at Wickhamford, near Evesham, on Spt. 19, was heard at Evesham County Petty Sessions yesterday, when a charge of manslaughter was brought against Pheneas Mory Horn (22), a fruit grower, of North End, Exning, near Newmarket.
NEW FOOTBALL CLUB
Decision At Wickhamford Meeting
At a meeting held at the Sandys Arms, Wickhamford, near Broadway, it was unanimously decided to re-form the football club in the village. The club went out of existence several years ago.
There was a large attendance, and the election of officers resulted as follows:- Chairman, Mr. Sturt; secretary, Mr Frank Styles; treasurer, Mr. Riding, together with a provisional committee with power to add.
George Joseph Sutton and his wife, Annie Maud Sutton, both of Pitcher’s Hill, Wickhamford, were summoned for using indecent language. They were fined 10s. each and ordered to pay witnesses’ expenses.
LISTENERS TAKEN ‘DOWN ON THE FARM’
B.B.C.’s Vale of Evesham Broadcast
The B.B.C. took listeners ‘down on the farm’ last night in a programme broadcast partly from Evesham Town Hall and partly from the Birmingham studio.
Recordings made by the B.B.C. mobile unit of milking, a rotary cultivator, ploughing, shepherding, and a harvest home brought a realistic atmosphere of farm life into scores of homes.
