1910s - 1920s
Rutland Boughton and Alice Buckton are at the centre of professional and community performing arts in Glastonbury. Boughton's original Glastonbury Festival started on the eve of the outbreak of World War I.
1930s
Street Players founded. Productions by playwright and poet Laurence Housman, brother of the famous poet A E Housman, brought to Street by Roger and Sarah Clark.
1948
Street Society of Arts founded due to the enthusiasm of Mr F E Bell and Miss Winnie Payne, with the Street Players at its centre.
1963
Strode Theatre opens on 5th October 1963 with a performance by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.
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