Search by topic
- archaeology
- Building of Local Interest
- charity
- church
- crime
- dressmaker
- fire
- Great Eastern Railway
- Listed building
- Mapping Relief
- medieval
- oral history
- poverty
- Public House
- Rattee & Kett
- Religious House
- Roman
- scholar
- school
- Then and Now
- tudor
- women
- work
- world war one
- world war two
Search by text
Village Hall, Dry Drayton
History of the Village Hall
In 1923 a committee was set up under Arthur Frohock to buy an old army hut for leisure activities. A hut was bought for £70 and delivered by a steam-driven lorry from Felixstowe. It was finally erected in 1926 and became known as the Dry Drayton Institute.
Ballroom dances to live bands were regular events in the 1930s. n 1940 the Village Hall was requisitioned by the military but the dances continued with the RAF jazz band from Oakington.
In 1961 the old hall was replaced.
Contribute
Do you have any information about the people or places in this article? If so, then please let us know using the Contact page or by emailing capturingcambridge@
License
This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
