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For my part of the display / exhibition on the 27th April afternoon, I am steadily printing off interesting and curious local press cuttings from the 1920s to 1950s and 1960s about the early years of Devoran Village Hall (or Devoran Village Club or the Institute as it was variously once called).
It is impossible to cover every event and activity that I have found searching in the Local Newspaper Archive from the many interesting fundraisers or family, village and national celebrations all using Devoran Village Hall since 1924 …
ranging from jitterbugging black and white American GIs (but not together!) to wireless concerts, whist drives, dances, billiards matches, flower shows, fur and feather pet shows, school concerts, gas mask fitting, wartime jam making, markets, W.I. talks and speakers and fancy dress carnivals …
not mentioning pantomimes and the many types of music heard here over the century from folk dance, gramophone concerts, sea shanties, ‘plantation songs’ and piano accompaniment through to dances, mouth organ orchestras, the Charleston and the Yale Blues to today’s acoustic folk concerts and theatre groups …
fundraising for a wide range of good causes beyond running the village hall or club itself Finnish and Hungarian war refugees, local hospitals, sports and social clubs, Prisoners Of War (POW),
For future use, these press cuttings have been organised by decade and placed on this page of this my Devoran War Memorial blog:
https://devoranwarmemorial.wordpress.com/devoran-village-hall-1924-to-2024-dvh-100/
For the display / exhibition on the 27th April afternoon, if you have photos or visuals or memorabilia, Ann and the Devoran Village Hall team would love to hear from you via email at dvhposters@outlook.com
I look forward to a good turnout and a good bit of chat and memories on the afternoon of Saturday 27th April 2024.
Blog posted by Mark Norris, Devoran Village Hall 100 (DVH100) on 15 April 2024
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