100 Years of the Hall and Turkey pips

If you look closely at this photo you can clearly make out the Tower of the memorial Hall nestled to the centre left of the village. The official opening of the hall took place this afternoon with an invited audience of locals and "dignitaries", and everything seemed to go to plan.
The Children for the village school performed a lively montage of eclectic songs (I managed to get a shy wave from my friend Geoff's daughter Helen) and the usual collection of suits gave their praises and platitudes with practiced aplomb.

I was most interested in the speech given by a Mr Hobbs (below) who was the husband of a relation of the Hall's original builder Michael Antonio Ralli, a former Greek Consul of Liverpool. Ralli (or Ralli Back which means small Ralli in Welsh!!!) funded the Memorial hall back in 1909 as a means of alleviating the severe effects of unemployment in the area at that time, and seemed to have been a hugely colourful character within the local community. Having his descendants present at the Hall today, was a nice touch

Welsh Assembly Member Sandy Mewies officially opened the Hall, and the afternoon was neatly concluded by some Stirling singing by the Trelawnyd Male Voice Choir

There was a buffet finish and gift mugs celebrating the first 100 years of the Hall could be taken home as souvenirs; as these bun fights go....it was all done very well.

I know many of the local people thought that the "official" ceremony should have been opened to the whole village, and I guess there is some mileage in this thought,as then no one would have been "left out" and therefore "put out".; however, organizing an event like this that pleases everyone is nigh on impossible to sort out, so I will reserve judgement on this

All I will say, is that organising the work and obtaining the funding for such a huge undertaking as the Hall's renovation was a Herculaneum task, and if it wasn't for the obsession of a selected few on the Hall Charity committee, nothing would have been achieved at all.

I got home after four, only to find a robust turkey chick staggering around the incubator. Two more are pipping....... I wonder how many I will have by morning