Happy New Year!
With time-honoured tradition, Christmas and the New year were
celebrated with much fun and frivolity at Greens Norton British
Legion Club.
BRITISH LEGION CELEBRATES 60YEARS
OF SERVICE IN GREENS NORTON.
This Remembrance weekend saw an extra reason to recall the past
for the members of Greens Norton Royal British Legion, the only
British Legion Club left in Northamptonshire which still has it own
building.
In 1952 the Legion was given a piece of land in the village by
the Basford family for the Royal British Legion Club to
establish its own premises. Members at the time drove over to
a local airfield and picked up a surplus to requirements army hut
which it converted into a Clubhouse. From that time on, the
facility has served a very welcome purpose in the village under the
auspices of the RBL and its associated Social Club and today is far
more than the basic hut first collected.
On Sunday 12 November 2012, following the Remembrance Day
Service at St Bartholomews Church, another ceremony took
place in the grounds of the Clubhouse to lay a commemorative Time
Capsule to mark the 60th birthday of the British Legion in the
village.
Over the weekend a Poppy Appeal Bingo and a barbecue supper
helped to boost the collections for the 2012 Poppy Appeal in the
village and thanks go to all who helped or supported these events
in any way and added to this very worthwhile cause.
