The History

In the season 2000/2001 the Eversley Choral Union celebrated 100 years of making music.
During the latter half of the 19th century many local villages boasted a choir, and not least of these was the village of Milnthorpe. In 1885, Mary Wakefield of Sedgwick House organised a Music Festival at her home. Over the years this became a well established and regular festival, growing in popularity and size,as each year went by, until it became difficult for the smaller choirs to compete.
To meet this problem, on November 5th 1900, at a specially called public meeting, it was agreed that the separate choirs of Milnthorpe, Leasgill, Levens and Beetham should combine to form a Choral Union.
The first conductor of the newly formed Choral Union was Agnes Argles, a sister of Mary Wakefield, and married to Mr T A Argles of Eversley House in Leasgill. It was as a result of this association that the combined choir was named 'The Eversley Choral Union', a name it has kept up to the present day.