MORE than £1,000 was raised for Hundred House Village Hall earlier this month when nearly 100 tractors descended on the village green for the annual Hundred House Tractor Run. 

The Sunday, May 12, event saw over £1,300 being raised for the village hall.

Participants had come not only from the immediate area and wider Radnorshire but from Herefordshire, Shropshire, Montgomeryshire and Breconshire. 

Yet again, route plotter Mervyn Price had put on a very scenic run in the May sunshine around the communities of Bettws, the Fforest Inn, Dolyhir, Gladestry and Newchurch to the lunch stop at Bryngwyn. 

Here the participants took in the unusual sight of Leigh Miles with his 1903 Wallis and Stevens steam traction engine on display. A couple of the old tractors abandoned the run due to technical issues. 

After refreshments it was off again, and with skies threatening and thunder rumbling in the distance, the procession of tractors made their way over Glascwm Hill to Glascwm and over the Giant’s Grave to drop back into Hundred House.

Back in the village hall, the raffle was drawn and the entrants were treated to refreshments.  Mervyn thanked everyone for coming, as well as all entrants, marshals and officials who helped with signing on, and the ladies preparing the refreshments, before drawing the raffle and announcing that over £1,300 had been raised for the hall’s upkeep. 

He reminded drivers of the forthcoming Welsh National Tractor Road Run on June 16 in Llanwrtyd Wells.