St James’ Church, Badsey
Past Events
Badsey Community Sports & Social Club
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Badsey Community Sports & Social Club
Alan Tutton will talk to us about some interesting individuals from one person’s family tree.
David Wood, who once worked at The Evesham Journal, The Worcester News and other local newspapers, talked entertainingly to us about his experiences of working in the newsroom.
Berkeley Castle has been the home of the Berkeley family for 850 years (the oldest in the country to be inhabited by the same family who built it).
The Badsey Society stand at a previous Flower Show.
It was rather challenging during the first hour of the Flower Show when we were coping with holding down exhibition boards in the gusts of wind, dealing with flying coffee cups, and pushing the boo
The Chameleon Quintet.
Who’d organise an outdoor event in a British summer?!
Just as David Attenborough might be considered a “national treasure”, so Terry Sparrow might be considered Badsey’s “treasure”.
Artists' impression of how the abbey would have looked.
Elizabeth Spencer, former Head Teacher of Badsey First School, delivered the annual Richard Phillips Memorial Lecture. Elizabeth is Vice-Chair of Evesham Abbey Trust and spoke to us about "Th
Garry Smout entertained us to a a fascinating talk about three Evesham bands from the 1970s and 1980s - a subject matter which was quite different to our normal offering. Garry had given us a
The 22nd AGM was held as a “hybrid” meeting; 40 members being in attendance in person and 12 via Zoom.
In 2022, following a talk on medieval graffiti by Wayne Perkins, three members of the Badsey Society, Shirley Tutton, Helen Green and Kerry Moreton, undertook a photographic survey of the medieval
This event followed immediately after the annual Parish Council’s Christmas carols outside The Wheatsheaf.
This talk had to be postponed from October to November and a last-minute change of venue to the church was required, but this did not deter some 42 members from attending.
Kelmscott Manor.
A fascinating day out was had by 27 members of the Society who visited Kelmscott Manor in Oxfordshire, a Grade I listed manor dating from around 1570.
Maureen Spinks, author of "A History of Badsey Flower Show".
We were blessed with fine weather (though a tad windy) for this, the 120th Badsey Flower Show.
On a hot and sunny Friday evening, 24 people set off from The Wheatsheaf in order to explore the new QR trail set up by Alan and Shirley Tutton.
Sadly this event had to be cancelled as the ground at Pear Tree Fields was too water-logged. Despite that, we did manage to retrieve something from the day.
The 1590 Sheldon Tapestry of Worcestershire
This event was presented twice: once in person on 28th April and once via Zoom only the following week.
The long-awaited results of the Big Badsey Dig were revealed to Society members and dig volunteers by Nina O’Hare of Worcestershire Archaeology Service.
The 21st AGM of The Badsey Society was held on Friday 10th February 2022 as a “hybrid” meeting; 45 members were in attendance in person and 11 via Zoom.
Liz Pearson Mann gave a talk entitled "Eat Like Your Ancestors: the archaeology of food and the farmed landscape and the future of food". The talk was attended by 38 people in person and 15 v
Our December talk took place appropriately in St James’ Church. The speaker, Chris Pickford, and his wife, joined the Badsey bell-ringers at 7.30 to welcome people into the church.
Back in January of this year, Maureen Spinks and Shirley Tutton spoke to members about the 1921 census which had just been published.
Following on from their successful workshop held via Zoom in 2020, Alan & Shirley Tutton repeated this workshop, this time held at Badsey Community Sports & Social Club.
The Chairman, on holiday in Germany, introduced the talk via Zoom; five people were on Zoom and 27 were present in the Hall at Badsey Community Sports & Social Club.
On the afternoon of Sunday 19th June, Tom Locke and Val Harman led a stroll down Manor Road, Wickhamford, looking at houses which featured in the census of 1921. Lots of fascinating facts abo
A few hardy souls met at the Remembrance Hall for a stroll round the northern part of Badsey. Unfortunately the good weather of the night before did not last and the walk had to be abandoned
A small group of people met outside Aldington Manor on the morning of Saturday 18th June for a walk round Aldington.
On a glorious Friday evening, a large number of people met at The Wheatsheaf to take a stroll round the centre of Badsey looking at houses which appeared in the 1921 census.
Over the weekend of 21st-22nd May, 19 test pits were dug in the village.
Wayne Perkins, an archaeologist and former pupil of Evesham High School, came to give a talk in St James’ Church about the historic graffiti that may be found there. He writes: