Memorial Hall Centenary 1920’s Tea Party on Sunday 27th June 3pm

 

Please join us on the Rec with your family and picnic chairs / rug.

We will run a ‘bring and share’ tea and cake table, or you can bring your own picnic tea if you prefer.

Ian Cumming will be judging a ‘best celebration cake’ competition.

Barry Ward will be displaying his fascinating collection of old photos of the Wilbrahams in the hall.

We would love it if you dressed up in clothes from the 1920’s and if anyone has a croquet set, please bring it along and set it up.

 

 

Our hall was part of the golden age of village hall building just after WW1. It was founded on

March 24th, 1921, so 100 years old this year! Squire R S Hicks of Wilbraham Temple

donated the land for the village hall, in memory of those who had been lost, and to help his

fellow returned soldiers. After WW2 Squire Hicks also donated adjoining land for the

recreation ground. Over the last hundred years, the hall has met social and educational

needs, and provided a meeting space for the WI, the Parish Councils, Community Choir,

craft clubs, exercise and dance classes, coffee mornings, and many other groups. The

annual flower and produce show is a time of serious but friendly competition, and delicious

cakes and teas too. In wartime it was the haunt of jiving GIs from Bottisham airfield, and in

peacetime it provided a meeting place for Covid volunteers to organise themselves at the

start of the first lockdown. From the very young in Mums and Toddlers groups, to some of

our most long-lived villagers, it is a welcoming space for everyone. It is now a modern space

with technology available that was not even dreamt of when it was first built. We would like

to honour and celebrate these last 100 years, and, with a renewed appreciation of our

community in difficult times, to look forward to the next 100.

 

Wilbrahams’ Memorial Hall Trustees