SEacroft Village Hall
Seacroft Village Hall was opened on 6th January 1934 as the Darcy Bruce Wilson Institute, by Colonel C. Eade. He was the nephew of Darcy Bruce Wilson, who had left £1000 in his will for the land and new hall.
"The first time we rejuvenated the place (Village hall) for want of a better description it was like a canteen it was terrible really but i thought it was marvellous. Everything was so warm. I think that was the best when both Mary and Anna, they’ve both passed away now. When Anna was saying get in line you little buggers. Nowadays people would complain. She didn’t know anything about children. She was overwhelmed with them.
I was involved with the Village Hall right from the beginning. I was born in 1929. I didn’t come up to Seacroft until I was 30. 1959 when i moved I up to Seacroft. No one was using the Hall it was very, very run down. We had the bar put in and we made do with the furniture that we had because we had no choice we had no money but all we were dedicated to was making money.
The dances were five shilling if I remember right and on New Year’s Eve I did a supper and they queued all the way round the Village hall to get in. What happened was Brenda was coming over with the key and they wouldn’t let her in they told her to go to the back of the queue and she said “none of you will get in because I’m opening up” I remember at one dance we always wore long dresses. I did fish and chips. For my first one I’m pretty sure I did chicken portion. Mr Fulton started off with the chickens and I used to do them for New Years Eve."
- Audrey
"We used to do kids parties. They wouldn’t let children under 18 in the Village Hall because of the bar. We could hire a room because that was a private party. So what we did was, there was loads of bar staff and on Boxing night they would bring all their children. they would take in turns of running the bar. They would organise games and all sorts for the kids. Roll a penny down the line to win a prize. As the kids grow up they are not interested. We had a children’s party upstairs and we had a trip to the pantomime. We found a little boy that didn’t belong to our group. So we phoned City Varieties and his parents were demented. I don’t know how they had come to miss him off their bus. The other time we decided to have a children’s party and we’d got it all set out and they were going to all sit down and we had buns and cakes and everything and a certain person came round and gave them all them blowers
I remember this woman who had a fabulous party upstairs in the Village Hall. I cannot remember who she was and she said to me “will you tell those downstairs that if they want a sandwich will they come up and have a sandwich up here. Tell them to help themselves. Other lady, we had two chaps that sat there, they decided to go up and they came down with a sandwich and a full joint of beef! The lady came down asking where it had gone! She had a big apple pie that was taken as well." - Joan
"The first time we rejuvenated the place (Village hall) for want of a better description it was like a canteen it was terrible really but i thought it was marvellous. Everything was so warm. I think that was the best when both Mary and Anna, they’ve both passed away now. When Anna was saying get in line you little buggers. Nowadays people would complain. She didn’t know anything about children. She was overwhelmed with them.
I was involved with the Village Hall right from the beginning. I was born in 1929. I didn’t come up to Seacroft until I was 30. 1959 when i moved I up to Seacroft. No one was using the Hall it was very, very run down. We had the bar put in and we made do with the furniture that we had because we had no choice we had no money but all we were dedicated to was making money.
The dances were five shilling if I remember right and on New Year’s Eve I did a supper and they queued all the way round the Village hall to get in. What happened was Brenda was coming over with the key and they wouldn’t let her in they told her to go to the back of the queue and she said “none of you will get in because I’m opening up” I remember at one dance we always wore long dresses. I did fish and chips. For my first one I’m pretty sure I did chicken portion. Mr Fulton started off with the chickens and I used to do them for New Years Eve."
- Audrey
"We used to do kids parties. They wouldn’t let children under 18 in the Village Hall because of the bar. We could hire a room because that was a private party. So what we did was, there was loads of bar staff and on Boxing night they would bring all their children. they would take in turns of running the bar. They would organise games and all sorts for the kids. Roll a penny down the line to win a prize. As the kids grow up they are not interested. We had a children’s party upstairs and we had a trip to the pantomime. We found a little boy that didn’t belong to our group. So we phoned City Varieties and his parents were demented. I don’t know how they had come to miss him off their bus. The other time we decided to have a children’s party and we’d got it all set out and they were going to all sit down and we had buns and cakes and everything and a certain person came round and gave them all them blowers
I remember this woman who had a fabulous party upstairs in the Village Hall. I cannot remember who she was and she said to me “will you tell those downstairs that if they want a sandwich will they come up and have a sandwich up here. Tell them to help themselves. Other lady, we had two chaps that sat there, they decided to go up and they came down with a sandwich and a full joint of beef! The lady came down asking where it had gone! She had a big apple pie that was taken as well." - Joan
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