BREDWARDINE residents are preparing to celebrate 70 years since their village hall was built after weeks of hard graft sprucing the place up.

Villagers spent almost a month working on new toilets and a full re-paint in time for its big birthday on May 9.

Now they are looking forward to re-living the era when the hall was first built with an evening of music from the 1940s to the present day with swing band The Gentlemen of Jive.