Saturday 1 June 1929 – Death of 43-year-old Edwin Knight at Littleton
LITTLETON MARKET GARDENER’S SUICIDE – Worried about price of Asparagus
An enquiry was held at the Evesham Police Station on Friday evening by the District Coroner (Mr H Basil Harrison) into the circumstances surrounding the death of Edwin Knight (43), a market gardener, of Council Houses, Middle Littleton.
Knight, who had 15 acres of land, had worried about his work and the crops. The poor prices realised for asparagus recently were said to have caused him considerable worry, as he had five acres of asparagus ready for cutting.
Saturday 2 February 1929 – Death of Octogenarian Edwin Knight
DEATH OF BADSEY OCTOGENARIAN – The Late Mr Edwin Knight
Market gardeners in particular will learn with deep regret of the death of one of their oldest colleagues in the district, in the parson of Mr Edwin Knight, of the Silk Mills, Badsey, who passed away, after a short illness, in the early hours of Thursday morning.
Wednesday 11 December 1935 – Eunice Knight and Nancy Merriman involved in car accident
ACCIDENT VICTIMS – Bulletins from Evesham Hospital
Inquiry at Evesham Hospital this morning revealed that Eunice Nora Knight, the 10-year-old daughter of Mr & Mrs I Knight of 5 Synehurst Crescent, Badsey, near Evesham, who, with a friend, was knocked down by a motor-car on Saturday, is making good progress.
The girl and her friend, Nancy Joan Merriman (10), daughter of Mr & Mrs W Merriman of 4 Synehurst Crescent, Badsey, were injured when they were knocked down by a car belonging to Mr F H J Lock of School House, Honeybourne.
GREEN, Joseph (1895-?) – Horticultural Instructor
In the 1924 Electoral Roll for Wickhamford, Joseph Green is listed as living with Basil Griffin’s family at “34 Wickhamford”, which is now 6 Manor Road. At the 1921 census, he was a farm labourer working on Longdon Hill, employed by fruit grower, M.G.
BRAASCH, Helga (1917-2003) – of Germany, Peru … and Wickhamford
Helga Marie Louise Wilhelmine Braasch was born during the Great War, on 9th July 1917 in Malente-Gremsuhen, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. She was the daughter of Heinrich Himrich Wilhelm Braasch and his wife, Harriet née Bluhme. This couple divorced in 1920, in Hamburg, and she then remarried. Her second husband was George Hans Louis Petersen. This couple lived in Peru and the British Overseas Consular records show that Helga Braasch married Ernest R Davis there during the period 1936-1940 (no precise date is given in the records).
Saturday 25 November 1905 – Allen Halford trespasses at Field Farm
GAME TRESPASS AT WICKHAMFORD
Saturday 6 July 1901 – Rider Haggard stays at Wickhamford Manor
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
Saturday 27 September 1952 – Raising Money for Bus Shelters
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.
BUCKLEY, Vivian Charles (1901-1993) – Author, Photographer and Lecturer
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.