Dancing after VJ Day: Pheasey, 23 August 1945

A ticket for the Pheasey Community Association Gardeners' Guild 'Grand Dance' at the new community hall, 23 August 1945, eight days after VJ Day.

A printed dance ticket: 'Les Hardeman's Band, specially augmented. Tickets 2/6. 7-30 to 11-30. Refreshments.'

Notes

Place: Pheasey, the estate just over the city boundary north-west of Kingstanding. It was then in Aldridge Urban District, Staffordshire, and is not part of Kingstanding. Part of the half-built Pheasey Farm estate was a US Army replacement depot from 1942 to mid-1945. That is covered by the GI researcher and not pursued here. Date: printed on the ticket. VJ Day was 15 August 1945. Location confidence: confirmed (Pheasey); hall's exact site unconfirmed.