Addi Road is a helluva interesting place. On Monday nights the community centre comes alive to the clanks (metallic), clonks (wooden), shouts and groans (human) of the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA).
The group are dedicated to historical recreations from the 1600s and before, as long as it’s a period that can be documented in detail.
A woman dressed in full battle gear explains that the 1500s is actually her specialty. Then, to clarify a few common-sense limits to the group’s time-tunnel theatrics and dressing up, she jokes that “there’s not a lot of documentation for cave men that we could use, so we don’t go back that far”.
Pageantry, battle, costumery, moments in history, the Society for Creative Anachronism have ye olde spirit sussed. Just one of the many highly varied community groups and often chivalrous organisations who make a home at the community centre.
Every day and night, a world all its own at Addi Road.
