Description

Championship Section Band.
Our aspiration is to foster the talent and education of our Members, provide quality entertainment to the community and to encourage the development of young and potential talent​.

Blidworth Welfare Band is a brass band with mining heritage. We started out in the late 19th century as the Stanton Hill Temperance Band based in Sutton in Ashfield, the band later changed their name to the Stanton Hill Silver Prize Band until the coal industry paid an interest in brass banding in general. An alliance with the Teversal, Silver Hill and Sutton Collieries saw a name change for the band and it became the Teversal Collieries Band until the demise of those mines in the late 70’s which forced the band to relocate to Blidworth in 1980 and a name change to The Blidworth Welfare Band.



Over the years we have been supported by various companies, B J Mining, Homefires, local businessman George Aitken, Hopkins Solicitors and we now have an ongoing partnership with A W Lymn Funeral Services, we are extremely grateful for their help and commitment to the band and hope that it may continue.



Blidworth Welfare Band has established itself over the years to be an extremely successful contesting and concert band performing all over the country. Since 2009 the band, in National Competitions has been placed in the top 6 no less than 22 times. In that time the band has also progressed from 2nd section returning to the Championship Section in 2017 competing against some of the top brass bands in the country such as Black Dyke, Grimethorpe Colliery, Brighouse & Rastrick, Fodens, Carlton Main Frickley to name but a few.

Description

The village hall on Trent Lane has been at the heart of village life for over 90 years and yet there are many people living in Burton Joyce and Bulcote who have never been inside.
The hall was originally built through the efforts of the local Women’s Institute. They had been fundraising for several years in order to purchase a hut for their meetings. When they had accumulated £300 - about £14,000 at todays value, they approached local landowner Roger Hearnshaw for permission to erect their hut on a piece of his land.
Mr Hearnshaw refused but said that if they continued to raise money, he would donate a piece of land together with £100 - so that they could build a small hall to be used by the whole community.
In November 1925, the hall was opened at a cost of around £3000, which is around £175,000 at todays prices.

The hall hosts choir and brass band concerts, plays, quizzes and a pantomime. There is an art group, zumba and pilates classes, ballroom dancing, as well as dozens of groups organised by the Burton Joyce and District U3A. So, come on down to the village hall – there’s sure to be something there for you.

Trent Lane,

Burton Joyce,

Nottinghamshire,

England,

NG14 5EY.