History Trail 2 -  Berry Court, formerly the Memorial Institute

Funds were sought to build a Community Hall from the early 1900s. A benefactor agreed to pay for a building but this wasn’t built.  After the First World War the village felt they should erect a memorial to those from the community who had died. An ex-army hut from Catterick was secured and erected on the site now known as Berry Court. The Memorial Institute was opened post 1918. It was used for dances, concerts, a reading room etc. and ‘to encourage the young men away from the public houses’. It was the forerunner of the Village Hall.