Hallow Home Guard..
basil | 4/1/2006 | 2:12 pm
Home Guard at Hallow.
Local characters from Lower Broadheath and Hallow who missed the sign-up, were persuaded to join the Home Guard. These volunteers were trained to defend the country in the event of Hitler crossing the Channel. Photograph was taken outside Hallow Parish Hall around 1940.
The clothing millionaire Joseph Banks, who lived at Hallow Park, gave Hallow both the playing field and £500 pounds towards the Parish Hall built in 1930. As an old man in 1941 Mr Banks donated £5000 in the war effort for a Spitfire named Hallow in honour of the younger men of the village serving in the forces.
