Badsey is a large working village in the Vale of Evesham, Worcestershire, UK.
This website contains the webpages of some of Badsey's groups and organizations.

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OPEN YOUR GARDEN IN BADSEY

An Open Gardens weekend is planned for the 14th and 15th June. Several gardens have already agreed to open but there is room for more. It doesn't matter what size your garden is , big or small, or what you grow, just as long as you are willing to let people look round it. You can also make money for your favourite charity by selling cuttings, having a stall, or even a garage sale.

The gardens will be open between 2pm and 6pm on both the Saturday and Sunday.

Delicious teas with homemake cakes, tombola, second-hand book stall, handicrafts, and a display of plants by Cotswold Garden plants will be on offer throughout the village.

If you would like to add your garden to the list then contact Liz Cudd on (01386) 831233

THE BADSEY PHOTOGRAPHIC EXPEDITION 2008

The Worcestershire Record Office houses an important collection of over 70,000 photographs and other pictorial material covering parishes in the county. The total collection comprises 629 photos of Badsey and 11 of Aldington. The collection can be seen on microfiche at both branches of the Record Office.

But by far the largest survey of Badsey took place in May 1968 when over 500 photos were taken in one day by a 19-strong team of the Birmingham Photographic Society and known as “the Badsey expedition” which was led by Miss S M Woods, a member of the Record Office staff. The weather was not brilliant as the leaden skies in some of the photographs show, but they succeeded in covering most of the village. Photographs were taken of individual houses, with the exception of housing estates built in the 20th century where just general shots were taken. (Copies of the monochrome photos are available from the Badsey Society)

In an attempt to recreate this exercise the Badsey Society is mounting a "Badsey Expedition 2008" to photograph every house in the parish of Badsey (which includes Aldington, Blackminster and Bowers Hill). A team of 20 local photographers have volunteered, and it will take place during the weekend of 17th and 18th May 2008.

The resulting photographs will be given, as a collection, to the Worcestershire Record Office, for use by future generations.

If you do not wish to have your house photographed in this survey, or alternately, if you have an architectural feature, which is not visible from the road, and would like it photographed, then please contact Maureen Spinks on (01386) 831154.

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