50th Anniversary Summer Fete

Name: 50th Anniversary Summer Fete
Start: 2025-08-23T13:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-08-23T16:00:00+01:00
Location: Soudley Village Hall

Schedule

Sat Aug 23 2025 at 01:00 pm to 04:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Soudley Village Hall | Gloucester, EN

Soudley Village Hall celebrates its 50th anniversary on 23rd August 2025, and a week of events have been planned. Our intention is to recreate some of the flavour of 1975 - entrance to events is £1 which is the equivalent of 10p in 1975.
You are cordially invited to the following events: Anniversary Fete SATURDAY 23rd AUGUST 1 - 4 pm to include:
Fun Dog Show from 1-30 onwards….full details on web site
Gloucester Ukelele Experience…
Appearance of the Bevan’s 1970’s ‘dorsal fin’ bus…
Vintage vehicles…
Circus skills…
Rodeo bull & Bouncy castle…
1970 Mini car balloon raffle…
Skittles…
Coconut shy…
Morris Dancers…
Beer n Cider tent..
Pimms bar…
Teas, ices, cakes…lots of stalls…
Lots of free games for kids…
Entrance £1 - to include souvenir programme
Then at 7-30 pm a 1970’s FAMILY DISCO! Featuring DJ Dig B. £1 entrance. Bar & refreshments available some with a 1970’s flavour. Start practising those moves and shapes…. Top of the Charts then was ‘Sailing’ by Rod Stewart, and the Bay City Rollers ‘Bye Bye Baby’... Seems like yesterday…
TUESDAY 26th at 7-30 pm screening of ‘A FORTUNATE MAN’ - a BBC film from the 1970’s following the life of a doctor in the Forest. It features many foresters and used Soudley School for some scenes. Followed by a very recent film ‘MUDLARK’ which used the Dean Heritage Centre’s forester’s cottage in some scenes. It is a bitter sweet story set in Victorian Wales drawing on Welsh folklore, and tells the story of an orphan who scavenges on river banks and is taken in by the widow of a deceased salmon fisherman. PLUS: the writer of ‘Mudlark’ will present the film and answer questions. Entrance £1.
A display of photographs and original documents will be in the hall telling the story of the original Memorial Hall, and the funding of the 1975 Village Hall by Soudley villagers and others.
Unfortunately, the Royal Forest of Dean Orchestra is now unable to play for us on Friday 29th as planned.
Then, Sunday 31st is the annual FLOWER & PRODUCE SHOW - and auction to close the week. A full schedule of classes for entries and details is on the web site, and is available on line and in shops, and venues locally.