After a recent “Reading Old Documents” workshop, Kerry Moreton took on the challenge of transcribing a 17th-century will which we had downloaded from the National Archives.  This was for a yeoman of Badsey by the name of William Forrest.  The Badsey parish records have very few incidences of the name Forrest or Forest, so it was not a common name in the village.

Edmund Thomas Ladbrooke Huxley was born in Wickhamford in 1901, the son of a former soldier of the Worcestershire Regiment.  He went on to become a soldier himself in his father’s old regiment.  Here is his story.

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Thanks to an excellent “Old Documents Workshop” run by Alan and Shirley Tutton, a small group of members were able to decipher the will of Francis Horne who lived in Badsey for around a quarter of a century from the late 1620s until his death in 1653.

For a period in the 1950s, and up until 1967, the Wickhamford village stores and sub-post office was run by Major Jack Main and his wife Marie Berthe.  From 1942, until the Mains took over, the shop had been in the hands of George Cox who ran the business from the downstairs of his house at 43 Pitchers Hill.  He had tried to get planning permission to build a new store and sub-post office adjacent to his house in 1946, but this was not granted.  The Mains were successful in a later application and new premises were built adjoining the house.