Crossroads and Characters

63. OPERATICS BY THE BURN.

Back in the between-war years before television began absorbing leisure time, Dunning like other villages enjoyed home-made entertainment of fairly high calibre. Every club held concerts and dances, featuring the considerable range of vocal and instrumental talent available in the village. Many of the young people in Dunning belonged to a local Choral Union, and from it in the twenties the Dunning Operatic Society was formed. The music offered by Society members like this large and cheerful looking cast of The Mikado was almost always Gilbert and Sullivan. Today the village, though it boasts professional performing and other artistic talent among its residents, would have trouble arousing as much enthusiastic participation and support as did those shows of old.