Wartime Dances in Eastleigh Town Hall 1940-194

WARTIME DANCES AT EASTLEIGH TOWN HALL, 1940-1941
The most popular dance hall had been in Southampton but after its destruction by a landmine early in the war and because of the risk of nightly raids on large towns, Eastleigh became the centre for dancing and developed into a popular social venue attracting young people from miles around.Deprived of peacetime pleasures, they flocked to the dances in great numbers. Eastleigh was a small town from which it was easier to escape into the countryside when the sirens sounded and the ‘thump-thump’ of German bombers passing overhead made veryone wonder which town it was to be tonight.