Timsbury Youth Club

Until 1926, the property was used as a furniture store for local sale, when the wooden building was bought by the Y.M.C.A. who added a steel frame and block construction.  

 

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 During the Second world war, American soldiers who were stationed at Kingswell Hall would arrange dances, much to the delight of local young ladies, and regular cinema shows on a Friday evening continued well into the 1960′s.

 

 

 

The Youth Club we know were functioning immediately post war, but it was only in the late 1970′s that a formal lease was taken up with the Y.M.C.A.

 

 

 

Reproduced from ‘The Timsbury Book’ by kind permission of Timsbury Parish Council.


Page published on: 14th February, 2009
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