Every Picture tells a story - British Legion Fete 1940s

But once again we don’t know the full story! The newspaper cutting caption reads Chorleywood British Legion Fete, Dancers as fairies trained by Miss MacQuoid.

We believe that the photo left taken in the 1940s, is from the same set but of different aged children in the group. Sandra Kemp of Chorleywood British Legion delved into the organisation’s minutes of the era and discovered that fetes were held in the 1930s in the garden of Harewood, Ricky Road which was the home of the Hyman family. Funds raised around the time went towards building of the RBL Hall. The Branch originally met in the North Room of the Memorial Hall and negotiated with the District Council over ground floor rooms in a proposed Hall extension which didn’t go ahead so the Branch submitted plans for a room under the Memorial Hall and the foundation stone was laid on 18 July 1936. Fundraising for the building, which cost around £1500, was spread over the 30s and 40s (except the war years), well after it was completed to pay off the debt. There was also a full social programme with children’s parties, dances and whist drives.