together with sports changing facilities can be found in The Pavilion (a building attached to the rear of the Village Hall). The Pavilion boasts a well stocked bar and kitchen area. There is a bookable floodlit hard court area for football, tennis or basketball on the playing field. The playing field is shown on the plans of the Village Hall as already in existence in 1937. Alresford Silver Band was formed in 1910 as Alresford United Brass Band. During the 1930s, the Band often led Remembrance Parades in Colchester, Copford, Feering, Fordham, Frating, Wivenhoe and carnivals in Clacton and Maldon. The bandmaster during 1934-1938 was Frank Watsham, a retired LNER signalman. During World War 2, many of the men went off to war. They were replaced by members of the Women's Land Army at Cockaynes Farm. At Ford Farm, the Land girls and POWs from a local camp used horses to work the fields. The school welcomed evacuees, including some who didn't stay long before returning to their homes. Due to the short warning time from attacking V1 flying bombs in 1944, a telephone was installed. The local volunteer unit was Wivenhoe Platoon, 17th Essex Home Guard led by Charles Gooch of Wivenhoe House. They were filmed practicing in Wivenhoe Gravel Pit in May 1943. War time regulations were strictly enforced by the ARP Warden Mr Pilkington; leading to a fine of £2 in each of two cases of showing lights from buildings at night for one household in July 1940. In the 1960s and 1970s many houses were built in the triangle between Station Road, Wivenhoe Road and Main Road. This led to the population growing from 926 living in 311 houses in 1961 to over 2000 people living in c.800 houses by the Millennium. The village's shops and Post Office are located here in Station Road. Fields to the north of the railway station and south of St Andrew's are adding a further 314 homes. Many of the streets are named after varieties of apples previously grown in the orchards. A mile to the south of the village, past the ruins of St. Peter's, is the picturesque Alresford Creek. Here are fifty yacht moorings managed by Alresford Creek Boat Owners since 1976. (The ford is no longer passable by 4x4 vehicles due to the amount of mud at the bottom of the creek. Although it is still marked