Just Broadway Worcestershire

29/08/2026

Can anyone remember the name of the village Blacksmith in the big black shed behind the Lygon . He was from Buckland and had a daughter Jean who was one of the school canteen dinner ladys

01/07/2026

Today our village remembers the 1st of July is the Anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, one of the defining battles of the Great War and a turning point in British history. Our Home village of Broadway Worcestershire like many British villages lost young men some from our own family’s, one from my own mothers her 1st cousin.
In fact her farther brother and cousin’s and husband my farther served in the Great war with the Worcestershire Gloucestershire and Warwickshire Regiment’s.
Millions of families throughout the UK suffered the loss of close family relatives in the Great War.
It appears that barely a family or community across the UK escaped World War I untouched by such terrible loss as our village War Marmoreal stands to remind us
Over 30 men from Broadway served with the Worcestershire Regiment in the First World War which saw action on the Western Front.
Several men from Broadway died whilst serving or having served with the Regiment during WW1 and are commemorated on the Broadway War Memorial on the village green.
Our own Fallen hero’s of the village who volunteered to serve our country, also other Men who never came home from WW1 and other War's
They was our Forefathers they had grown up together went to school together, played cricket and football, together maybe chasing the same girls and drinking in the same pubs and they went to war together as volunteers as opposed to conscripts they had a choice when war broke out in 1914.
Almost as long as there has been life, war has been a part of it. Mankind continues to wage war even though the consequences breed nothing but misery.
Sadly we never got to meet the young men who gave there yesterdays for our tomorrows who’s names are carved forever in stone.
Recruitment initially relied heavily on volunteers, with large numbers of men enlisting at the start of the war. Many men were eager to enlist, believing it would be a short conflict and motivated by patriotism, adventure, or a sense of duty.
The Photo is of my Mothers cousin Private Charles Hubert Keyte 3rd Battalion Worcestershire Regiment
Died Tuesday 22 August 1916 aged 25 laid to rest in Authuile Military Cemetery France.
Photo and Marmoreal card is over a 100 years old ? , It was giving to me by a village lady who knew my family and the village family’s well .Charles joined the army under the Derby Scheme in 1915 and was called up in April 1916. joining the 3rd Battalion Worcestershire Regiment and was posted to the Western Front. He was killed in action on 22nd August 1916 whilst serving in the front line trenches .Lest We Forget. We salute you

14/06/2026

Regent Motorways Coach Company’ which was founded during the 1930s in Redditch, Worcestershire . My Dad drove for them right up to the 1970s , He drove the Bus to and from the BSA factory picking up workers from the Worcestershire villages starting at Broadway m . He and two more drivers was from Broadway and the Regent Motorways Coach spent years parked outside My house in Orchard avenue Broadway .From a early age I remember a a Coach parked outside our house , Leyland’s Bedford’s AEC .
My Dad had been a PSV and HGV driver all his life apart from two world wars he had been driving from early 1900s right up his death in the 1970s.
He is in the uniform of associated motorways /Black & White Motorways of Cheltenham , look at the shine on them shoes the photo is 1930s , the rest of his life was spent with Regent Motorways of Redditch and with Storger Harrison Broadway Coaches in between working at the BSA . Other Broadway drivers are in the photos .
He retired in 1977 and surrendered his PSV licence and badge , out of respect for the miles and time he been driving they let him keep his badge , Ive no doubt the workmen from the BSA factory and the school children who he use to drive to school will remember him .
He wanted me to be a Bus driver , no thank you the stress of school kids sat behind me would be to much

06/06/2026

Broadway Methodist Youth club 1958. , Who can give some names please ,

18/05/2026

Broadway Worcestershire England . My home Village long ago .
Respect to the guys and organizers who made this day special.
Rides are now rolling through Europe .The Distinguished Gentleman's Ride sees bikers dress in dapper attire to ride vintage and modern classic motorcycles to raise money and awareness for men's mental health.
Started 15 years ago in Sydney, Australia, it has grown in popularity, taking place in more than 100 countries on the same day,

21/04/2026

https://youtu.be/IFSt9N7nRUk?si=RwX3SCo-phDwuV_i Thank Sally Clark for this , Ta Sally x

23 likes, 5 comments. "Broadway 1986"

22/03/2026

A few days ago I seen a post from the Horse and Hounds about someone reporting them about the illuminated Inn sign , No doubt a immigrant to the village who has a problem with local culture . However there opinion is of no importance as they have not been in the village long to know the Inn sign has been there for over a hundred years only changing in name from the New Inn to the Horse and Hounds with no complaints apart from the question why the name change , not a problem as the Inn still gave the same good service to the village with many landlords and landlady's .
If the anonymous person who complained took a visit to spec savers and took a night time walk around the village he or she would see many more illuminated signs that have been in place for years without complaint, In my opinion being anonymous gives you no right to complain or report something that is a part of the village that if they don't like then they don't belong . We all have complaints and things we don't like and voice our opinions and name , and don't delete our comments if we make a mistake . I can no longer see the Broadway page the original was on

04/03/2026

Posted by Denise Wright .
It is with great sadness that I must inform you that my mum Vera Savage passed away peacefully at home with family by her side last Wednesday 25 February at the grand old age of 105.
The funeral will be held at st Michael’s and all Angels on 18th March at 12 noon.

11/01/2026

Andy Rose has sent me a up date to my list of change over the last 70 plus years and its scary to see what we let progress do to Broadway .

A house that now is 31 high street was my grandparents house Heber John Keyte senior a village self employed painter and decorator and his wife Susan Butler Keyte lived there in the early 1900s my mother and her brothers and sister was raised in it .
What made Broadway a village was its village residents some families going back hundreds of years .
I myself come from one such family who's mother was born to my grandparents who lived at 31 high street in the early years of the 1900 s.
As a small village everyone knew each other by name farmers, shop keepers pub landlords and the posh folk in the big houses and last of all the village bobby .
Sadly over the years the village as evolved in to a small town with maybe as many as 3,000 residents now far form the few hundred of the 1800 an 1900s when it was a village as I remember it.
Tourists and lust for money and city folk robbed the village of its heritage at a price, the shops and shop keepers of yesteryear have all gone and now replaced with cafes ,tea shops , art galleries , antique shops, with tacky pavement signage and some even bolted to listed buildings , who let this happen ?.
This may be fine for tourists and entrepreneur’s but along with the progress and traffic lights and CCTV cameras the village is no longer the one I remember.
Don’t misunderstand me progress is important along with change to our lives , but don’t destroy the past in doing it , History belongs to us all. Governments , Borough Councils , and the Rich have no right to take and destroy it.
So what has the village lost in my life time of 76 years .

My memory of yesteryear . Starting at Orchard avenue . Fish & Chip shop / Grocery shop . and a Cobblers

Leamington road a Haberdashery shop, Sweet shop, Bakers ,CoOP Butchers a Monastery and Vicarage Police station.

Fish Hill Garage Pub,Council rubbish dump .
North Street Police station ,Pub , school 2 Grocery shops ,Off licence,Doctors .

High street going down , CoOp Grocery store , Raido and electric , Ladys and gents outfitters shoe’s, Mr Joans Grocery store. Barbers Doctors , Luckets and Jeque’s shops 2 furniture an workshops , Warrens hardware store and Service garage , Lygon public bar and yard garage ,. HH Colin's Butchers with slaughterhouse , Grocery store , Chemist . Gordon Russel's offices , Electric repair shop , Bakers sweet and cakes and news papers shop . a Garage petrol , TV and radio shop , Grocery and veg store , Public toilets , litlle haberdashery sewing shop. a service and petrol garage down on the Cheltenham road , football club and council rubbish dump , Bakers.

High street going up from the green gas office and shop ,gents outfitters , caff, ladys lingerie shop, petrol garage , vets , post office , butchers bank , snooker hall , toy and jewelers watch repair, sweet shop , News agents and gifts, bank. little veg shop .RSPCA office an teas.


Andy Rose’s updated list of what the village has lost to progress

Stewart's / Birchway Builders Yard, Broadway Coaches, Gordon Russell's Factory Buildings including the Social Club, Smithy & Legally Protected Draughmans Building, Bookies, Scholl Shop just up from the Tea Room's of which there were 2 of, Lloyds Bank come RBL, Social Club School Canteen, Playground with Swings etc in, 20+ Garages before you got to the Canteen Gate, Wooden Youth Club which would Never have been Built original Site, curtesy of Jack Hanglen who did a great deal for the whole Village but was never awarded anything unlike some others, Garages behind the Primary School, Mr. & Mrs. David Ingles Farm that supplied Milk, Eggs, Bread and Pop to the whole of the Village, Tom's Farm that still stands Empty as it has done everything since the Bypass 2nd Route was chosen as the then Toffs didn't want it behind there properties, Shear House built for the Elderly with a Car Park for over 100 vehicles with a Toilet Block and a Council building behind, gone as yet again it was more lucrative to build homes on the Top End of the Car Park. Dunhelms in the High Street, part of the Builders Merchants in Leamington Rd, everything that was once good about the Village has been ripped out and for what reason, 2 Banks both Buildings have stood Empty for years and now they are on about updating the Lygon Arms, which is an historical Hotel, only because Oliver Cromwell stayed in One of the Room's for 1 night after the Battle of Evesham, it's like a tinder box waiting to go up. Florist further down, St.Patricks tea Room's & then made into a Shop that sold all sorts for the visitors, NHS Dentist gone but it's now Private Patients Only, Opticians, Cotswold Café, John Cole, who delivered the Coal and Spuds to locals just before Christmas, Toch H, and the Slaughter house, everything that made Broadway for the many Families who lived, worked, volunteered and died there wouldn't recognise the Village as it now stands, just a place for Tourism & for some about making a fast buck. No one has ever been told what happened to all that Money that was Donated for the Swimming Pool, which never got built. Probably went on the Lifford Hall & it's 1st revamp, then 15yrs later they needed money for a major build on it, selling off Roof Tiles to anyone that they could, even one person had a room named after him for all the hard work and time he put in, but those who came beforehand were never mentioned. Also the Telephone Exchange has gone and all those Allotments gone forever. As for the latest venture building on the old quarry down Station Road that had loads of stuff dumped in it from various camps etc, right next to a Heritage Site, they are going to need a great deal of Concrete just to keep these buildings up for how long remains to be seen, then finally the Roman Press that used to print local magazines etc, closed and just stood there. Yocker if I think of anything else that I've missed I'm sure that you will still have a few that haven't been mentioned, great shame that this is progress or so they say. Personally what goes around comes back around and bites back just like when Covid reheared it's ugly head and will keep mutating just like the Flu and common cold. Andy Rose an Yocker Yarnold

10/01/2026

Posted by Camilla Russell .Do you know anyone on this site who is related to Harry and Sidney Knight, Nora Russell and Emily Keyte (children of Arthur Knight who was a postman in the early 1900’s)