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Chapman Archive from Angela Holdsworth

Wilfred Broadhurst Chapman (1893-1964) was Vicar of Badsey, Aldington and Wickhamford from 1948 until 1957. He was born in Birmingham, the youngest son of Walter and Kate Chapman. Walter was the manager of a metallic bedstead works and the family lived in Edgbaston. Wilfred began his working career as an accounts clerk but then became a theological student at St David’s College, Lampeter. He was a student there during the First World War and, in January 1916, he joined a unit of the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) in North Wales. The unit consisted mainly of ordained ministers and theological students of all denominations. After training, the unit was dispersed across the various battlefields to work in Field Ambulances, Casualty Clearing Stations, and Hospital Ships. After the war, he returned to his studies and went on to become an ordained minister, serving parishes in various parts of Yorkshire.

In 1926, Wilfred Chapman married Alice Maude Wellox in Huddersfield. They had two children: John Michael (1929), known as Michael or Mick, and Angela Mary (1936), both born in Yorkshire. From 1936-1947, Wilfred was Vicar of Featherstone, situated between Wakefield and Pontefract. The Chapmans moved to Badsey in January 1948. Because of ill-health, Reverend Chapman moved to the much smaller parish of Hinton-on-the-Green in November 1957 where he remained until 1962. The Chapmans retired to Huddersfield where Wilfred died in November 1964.

In December 2010, Angela Holdsworth (née Chapman) contacted The Badsey Society to offer various items to the archive, relating to the time when her father, Wilfred Broadhurst Chapman, was Vicar of Badsey. The Badsey Society was extremely happy to accept the archive, which consists mainly of photographs and press cuttings.

News article 1950s - Badsey Fete
News article 1955 - article in The Birmingham Mail about the broken Badsey sign
News article 1956 - Badsey Blacksmith Invented Sprout-Net Holder
News article 1956c - Hunting for buried treasure at Badsey fete
News article 1963 - Mr C A Binyon dies: Leader in Vale of Evesham
News article 1948-49c - Badsey Show an Outstanding Success
Photograph - Badsey Church exterior & Reverend & Mrs Chapman (1950's)
Photograph - Badsey Church exterior 1948, spring cleaning ladies
Photograph - Badsey Church exterior 1951, churchyard extension dedication
Photograph - Badsey Church exterior 1951c, looking back to the church from the churchyard extension
Photograph - Badsey Church exterior 1959, Reverend & Mrs Chapman and Angela attending Pam Harvey's wedding
Photograph - Badsey Church interior 1948, Mothering Sunday floral decorations and British Legion standard
Photograph - Badsey Church interior 1948, Mothering Sunday floral decorations at the altar
Photograph - Badsey Church interior 1948, Mothering Sunday floral decorations in the pulpit
Photograph - Badsey Church interior 1950s, altar
Photograph - Badsey Church interior 1950s, font
Photograph - Badsey Church interior 1950s, general view
Photograph - Badsey Church interior 1950s, general view
Photograph - Badsey Church interior 1954, chancel window and stall
Photograph - Badsey Flower Show, Mrs Chapman presenting cup to Mr Knight, 1948
Photograph - Badsey Remembrance Hall, WI meeting, c1957
Photograph - Badsey Vicarage 1948, view from Mrs Chapman's bedroom window
Photograph - Badsey Vicarage 1948c, the front door
Photograph - Badsey Vicarage 1949c, Angela and Mick Chapman among the tomatoes in the garden
Photograph - Badsey Vicarage 1949c, Angela and Mick Chapman with Mr C A Binyon in the garden
Photograph - Badsey Vicarage 1949c, Angela Chapman with Mr Binyon in the garden
Photograph - Badsey Vicarage 1949c, Mr Binyon in the garden
Photograph - Badsey Vicarage 1952c, Angela Chapman with Dossie the pony and Simon the donkey in the garden
Photograph - Badsey Vicarage 1952c, Dossie the pony and Simon the donkey in the garden
Photograph - Badsey Vicarage 1953, Dossie the pony and Simon the donkey eating apples in the garden
Photograph - Badsey Vicarage 1953, elm tree and Vicarage
Photograph - Badsey Vicarage 1953, elm tree on wagon ready for removal
Photograph - Badsey Vicarage 1953, elm tree stump after having been cut down
Photograph - Badsey Vicarage 1953, elm tree stump with Danny the dog and Jimmy the tortoise
Photograph - Badsey Vicarage 1953, garden after Bonfire Day, Mr Binyon, Angela Chapman and Mr Hart
Photograph - Badsey Vicarage 1954c, general view
Photograph - Badsey Vicarage 1954c, with Parish Room
Photograph - Badsey Vicarage grounds, Church Fete 1953, Angela Chapman with Dossie, and friends
Photograph - Badsey Vicarage grounds, Church Fete 1953, Mr King bowling
Photograph - Badsey Vicarage grounds, Church Fete 1953, Simon the donkey working at the Fete
Photograph - Badsey Vicarage grounds, Church Fete 1954, Joan Waddy giving opening speech
Photograph - Badsey Vicarage grounds, Church Fete 1954, Rev & Mrs Chapman with Rev & Mrs Waddy and others
Photograph - Badsey Vicarage grounds, Church Fete 1954, Reverend Chapman and Barbara Mills
Photograph - Badsey Vicarage grounds, Church Fete 1955, Mr Bunbury and child
Photograph - Badsey Vicarage grounds, Church Fete 1955, Mrs Chapman and Mrs Bunbury
Photograph - Badsey Vicarage grounds, Church Fete 1955, Mrs Chapman, Mrs Bunbury and others
Photograph - Badsey Vicarage grounds, Church Fete 1955, Reverend Chapman speaking
Photograph - Wellingtonia tree by The Pool House with flag for the Coronation, 1953
Photograph - Wickhamford footpath; Angela Chapman and Mrs Jackson from Featherstone, 1949
Postcard of Broadway and the Vale from Farncombe
Postcard of Evesham in Blossom Time sent by Mrs Chapman to her daughter Angela
Water-colour painting of two donkeys by C A Binyon
Wilfred Broadhurst Chapman and his British Legion badge, written by Angela Holdsworth