Monthly parish magazine, price 3d per month. No Vicar's letter but Badsey reports on Sanctuary Guild; Mothers’ Union; death of Mr G H Knight received with regret; sympathy t orelatives of the late Mr Jeffries and of Mrs Water (Wickhamford); Parochial Church Council (resignation of Mrs Major; report by Mr Binyon on Gift Day, money spent on new altar hangings and frontal; dance to be held in the Wheatsheaf Assembly Room, permission of Miss Wixey); choir outing to Wookey Hole and Cheddar, via Bath and Wells (accompanied by the Vicar, Mrs Marshall, Mr G A Jones, Mr M Savory, Mr E Mitchell; report by AGC). Wickhamford notes (Flower Show, report by A C Welland). Fifty years ago (excerpt from parish magazine of August 1898). Reports on village organisations: Nursing Association (committee members of the Badsey, Aldington and Wickhamford Nursing Association invited by Mr James Holding to Briarlea for a raspberry tea followed by usual monthly meeting; resignation of Mr Holding as chairman, appointed honorary life member; invited the Reverend W B Chapman to take over his duties; gift note signed by Mrs Lees-Milne, Mrs L Carter, Mrs J Barnard, Miss C Barnard, Mrs S B Carter, Mrs E Cooke, Mrs M Harvey, Mrs H idiens, Miss E Jones, Mrs H Reed, Miss E Sladden, Mrs R C Sparrow, Mrs R Taylor, Mrs V Wasley, Mrs I M Brady, Mrs M Holbrook); Women’s Institute (minute’s silence in sympathy with Mrs G H Knight in the loss of her husband; Mrs S B Carter in the chair; competitions won by Mrs A Keen, Miss E Hartwell, Mrs G Harwood; white elephant stall organised by Mrs L Shelley, Mrs A Reed, Mrs Pratley; report by N E Keen); Infant Welfare Centre (report by E H Idiens); Badsey Flower Show (thanks to Mrs Carter and helpers for organising the teas; report by J E Knight). Continuation of “History of Badsey” by C A Binyon – The Bells. Baptisms - Alison Kay Beach, Richard Charles Lawrence, Bryan Douglas Hay, Christopher Brian Capener (Badsey); Paul Edward Folkes (Wickhamford). Marriages - Sydney Philip Cull and Bertha Turner, Norman Walter Jelfs and Annie Mary Briffett (Badsey). Burials - George Henry Knight, John Jeffries (Badsey); Agnes E H Waters (Wickhamford). Adverts placed by: T E Wheatley, Poplars Garage, High Street; C Savage & Son, Builder; H Robinson, Manor Dairy; H E Wheatley, Butcher, High Street; C J Bird, Cycle Dealer & Repairer; H Floyd, Hairdresser, 27 Bridge Street, Evesham.
