THE CATSHILL SMALL HOLDINGS AND EVESHAM VALE – BY MR H RIDER HAGGARD
We take the following from the “London Daily Express”. It is one of a series of articles Mr Rider Haggard is contributing under the title “Back to the Land”, and appeared yesterday. Quotation has been facilitated by the courtesy of the Editor in supplying advance proofs …..
IN THE GARDEN OF ENGLAND
An allegation that the Badsey Women’s Institute – when asked to help in raising money for bus shelters in the village – had “been shelving the scheme and making all sorts of excuses since it was first put forward” was made by Mr F E Jones at a meeting of the parish council last Tuesday. Mrs K Taylor said the WI committee had originally agreed to carry out a house-to-house collection for five bus shelters but it passed a resolution that it could not carry out the collections as it appeared no one would be responsible for the maintenance of the shelters, if they were erected.
It all began with a book: "The Good Life – Between the Two World Wars with a Candid Camera" by V C Buckley. Chris Kang of Sacramento, USA, acquired this book some time ago, and fell in love with the photos in the book which are of the Vale of Evesham, and vowed to visit this area of England some time.
John Gibbs was baptised in Wickhamford on 20th January 1805, the second child of Richard and Edith Gibbs. Richard Gibbs (b. 1761, Feckenham)) had married Edith Hall in Bretforton in February 1803 and their first child, Richard, was baptised in Wickhamford in late 1803. They went on to have a daughter, Edith, baptised in the village in 1806 and then two more daughters, Ann Lucy and Sarah, baptised in Badsey in 1810 and 1812 respectively. Whilst in Wickhamford, Richard was a tenant farmer at Field Farm, Longdon Hill.
WICKHAMFORD WVS KNITTING PARTY
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AUTHOR-TRAVELLER COMES TO LIVE NEAR EVESHAM
Did you know that American audiences are extremely interested in descriptions and pictures of the Vale of Evesham; that the most popular star in America today is a ventriloquist’s doll; and that the recent floods in Hollywood were of a magnitude that was never realised from the reports that reached this country?
EVESHAM COUNTY PETTY SESSIONS
Monday – Before Mr R Aldington, Captain R H Burlingham, Captain H Richardson, Miss M Lowe and Mr W Johnson.
DOG OWNERS FINED
“It was an oversight that I forgot the licence,” declared the Hon Mrs Beryl Dudley Ryder of Robin Cottage, Wickhamford to PC Haines for keeping a dog without a licence. The officer explained that defendant was in London most of her time and would see very little of the dog, a black and white Pekingnese.
NEW OR RECENT BOOKS – GRAIN AND CHAFF FROM AN ENGLISH MANOR by Arthur H Savory (Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 21s net)
HAY – HISTORIC SPOT
The open-air gathering on Sunday night – one of a series organised by the Council – was held on Black Lion Green, on the identical spot where in the 18th century William Seward of Badsey, Worcestershire, was stoned and mortally wounded while preaching. He was the first Methodist martyr, and his body was interred in Cusop church, three-quarters of a mile distant. The speaker on Sunday night, Mr J C Powell, recalled the incident and remarked upon the change which had taken place in the interval.
WICKHAMFORD AND THE WASHINGTONS
The Rev W H Price, Vicar of Badsey and Wickhamford, writes to “The Times” in reference to the tomb of Penelope Washington, viewed by Mr Balfour and also by the Gloucestershire Archaeologists in Wickhamford Church this week. The Vicar says:
