BALL,ALLEN - 1854 (Mar 08 Green)
John BALL and Caroline ALLEN, both age 20, married in church of Gt Addington on 30 Mar 1854, in presence of William ALLEN and John HARRIS. Is anyone researching this family group please?

Memorial Hall (8/02-10/03 Red)
The Memorial Hall which is located opposite the village church was built due to the villagers of that time. They decided to club together and raise funds to build a meeting place for the village. A committee of villagers was appointed to ensure thatthe hall should remain as a local meeting place and remain as a place belonging to the people of the village. The village hall was built on the site of an old pond and remains there today with local people running it.

York (8/02-10/03 Red)
Thomas York and his wife Nell moved to Gt.Addington in about 1934/5. They lived at "Sunnyside", Woodford Road for many years. Thomas died in 1954 and Nell in 1979, both are buried in the grounds of All Saints church. Thomas was originally a bus driver for his father's company which operated from Irchester. After what we believe was a family fall out he went to work for United Counties Buses. In 1936 there was a strike at this company and a photograph published in the local newspaper shows Thomas sitting near a brazier outside the companies depot. He later went on to have his own milk business supplying the residents of Little Addington, Great Addington and Woodford. He operated the business from "Sunnyside" and we know thathe bought the milk in churns and bottled it himself. "Sunnyside" is still standing in the village although it is now smaller in size than when Tom and his family lived there.