The 20th AGM of The Badsey Society was held on Friday 25th February 2022 as a “hybrid” meeting; 32 members were in attendance in person and 11 via Zoom. The same officers were re-elected: Maureen Spinks as Chairman, Shirley Tutton as Secretary and John Sharp as Treasurer. The same Committee was re-elected: Will Dallimore, Ian Gibson, Tom Locke, Jane Neill, Alan Tutton, Gill Woods.
Alfred Lambourne King was a market gardener living on Pitchers Hill, Wickhamford, at the time of the 1921 census. He was then aged 50 and single, but married Fanny Mabel Mary Collett (known as Mabel) in the parish church on 9th December 1922. The Marriage Register gives his father’s name as Alfred King, Doctor of Music. Mabel, as she was known, was the daughter of John Collett, a retired schoolmaster and aged 39. She was a teacher at Prince Henry’s Grammar School, but this was not entered in the Register.
The Archbishop of York, Edwin Sandys (1519-1588) had nine children between 1560 and 1578. The eldest, Sir Samuel Sandys (1560-1623), was the owner of Wickhamford Manor from 1594 until his death in 1623. The next born was Sir Edwin Sandys (1561-1629) and it was he who was considerably involved with the Virginia Company. As well as Edwin, Samuel was also a member of the Virginia Company and two other brothers, Thomas (1568-1634) and George (1577-1643), travelled to Jamestown, Virginia, at some point in their lives.
The article concerning the Top Ten Names in Badsey and Wickhamford in each century from the 1500s to the 1900s gives the name ‘Halford’ as the most common in Wickhamford in the 1900s.
90% VOTED IN EVESHAM WARD
Only in the small Blackminster ward of Badsey did the percentage of voters in yesterday’s Evesham RDC and Parish Council elections rise above 35% of the electorate.
At Blackminster, however, over 90% voted. The figures at Badsey were 35% and at Cow Honeybourne and Offenham about 30% .....
Parish Council elections:
BADSEY PARISH NOW HAS THREE WARDS
A sealed order issued by Worcestershire County Council, whereby the parish of Badsey has been divided into three wards, increasing the parish representation from nine to 11 councillors, was submitted at a meeting of Badsey Parish Council on Monday, over which Mr C A Binyon, JP, presided.
NO MORE OPPOSITION TO BLACKMINSTER TRANSFER – Offenham Parish Councillor’s Good Wishes to the Hamlet
Offenham Parish Council will take no further steps in opposition to the transfer of Blackminster from Offenham to Badsey. As the Offenham case had been presented and turned down both at the public inquiry and also by Worcestershire County Council, there seemed little point in further protest unless fresh evidence could be produced, it was decided at the Parish Council’s meetings last Thursday.
BLACKMINSTER GETS ITS ORDER FOR TRANSFER TO BADSEY PARISH FROM OFFENHAM
It is over three years since some people in the hamlet of Blackminster made complaints, which received publicity in the Press, of their youngsters having been snubbed at a children’s festival at Offenham. And for 20 years or more there has been sporadic talk that Blackminster might secede from its parent parish.
TO BE OR NOT TO BE IN THIS HAMLET
You might get black looks in Blackminster if you mention Offenham; in Offenham it’s a bit “off” to mention Badsey; and it’s just as bad in Badsey to speak of Offenham.
For the Worcestershire villages of Offenham and Badsey are at “war” over the adjoining hamlet of Blackminster.
The Blackminster folk have campaigned long to be removed from the auspices of Offenham. They favour the social life of Badsey, with its main bus route and its street lighting.
