Weekend fete and festival celebrates Beacon Hill Rovers centenary
Beacon Hill Rovers is a grassroots club which celebrated its milestone birthday with a party weekend. In 1921, residents from the Wickham Bishops area got together to celebrate the end of the First World War and the Spanish flu pandemic. They held a two-day party on a field they had cleared behind the Mitre in Wickham Bishops, including Beacon Hill Rovers’ first match. A century later the community turned out again at the field on Great Totham Road for a combined centenary festival and village fete. Saturday evening saw the football club celebrate its centenary with live music...
Source: maldonandburnhamstandard.co.uk