b'The following newspaper report gives an accountEldridge, did not preside. His place was taken by Mr of a typical Feast day celebration, this one in 1900Bardwell from Bolton Hall who gave a rousing speech being the 58th anniversary of the founding of Courtmentioning the pig-headed Boers.Sykes, the Bishop Wilton group. It appears to have been a thoroughly enjoyable day The church service was held in the morningfor the whole village!followed by lunch at the Cross Keys with innumerableThe report appeared in the Howdenshire toasts. For the first time in 48 years, the rector MrChronicle.From Mens Institute to Village Hall (Part 2)Kate PrattT hings come full circle. The very first article I wroteis evidence of a completed circle within this Minute for Bulletin No. 1 was about the Mens Institute,Book too: at the very first reported meeting, on 21st and now the very last article I shall write willbeDecember 1922, a deputation consisting of the about the same subject, as the missing Minute Book,Headmaster Mr Dearnley, Major Swain and Mr Fisher covering the years December 1922- November 1953,is instructed to ask Major Wood (later Lord Halifax) has turned up (thanks to Harry Smith). for a site on which to erect an Institute at some future The Mens Institute was a social group that startedtime. The interview went well, as the Hon E Wood in 1922, a thriving twin to the Womens Institute whichwrote to confirm his grant of a siteand gift of the last had started in Bishop Wilton 3 years earlier. Both100 necessary for the building.groups met in the school, but the Mens InstituteAt their meetings in the school, the members were very keen to have a building of their own. Thereplayed billiards, dominoes, darts and table tennis, ran 418 BULLETIN 20'