About Our Words: Band Of Hope
Reuben B Reynolds from Enderby, Leicestershire, was interested in an article by Joan Sutcliffe about the Band of Hope.
Reuben writes:
I found the articlwe by Joan very interesting. At present I am in the process of trying to write my autobiography and have just completed a chapter in which I refer to the Band of Hope.
I have written about a visit by a Band of Hope group to our village, at that time (1935 or '36). I lived in the village of Broughton Astley in Leicestershire.
I was wondering if they still existed and decided to Google, as a result of which I saw Joan's article.
The Band of Hope erected a marquee in a field at the bottom of the road where I lived, also a hoarding on which a large poster proclaimed in huge letters, BEER IS BEST - LEFT ALONE.
Children at our village primary school were invited to write an essay on what we had learnt about why beer was best left alone.
I won the prize for the best essay I re beer being best left alone and why. I received a quarter-pound bar of Cadbury's milk chocolate. I waas nine or ten years old at the time.
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