A
History of the Village Hall
The Village Hall was opened in Head Street in May 1937.
The land was donated by a local farmer and a remarkable number of groups within
the village and several national organisations worked together to fund and
construct the hall. The founding organisations were...
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The Parish Council |
District Nursing
Association |
Friendly Society |
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Parochial Church Council |
Drama Society |
The School Managers |
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The
Carnegie Trust |
Sports Club |
The Boy Scouts |
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Members of the Free
Churches |
The Brotherhood |
The Girl Guides |
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Women's Institute |
Mothers' Union |
The County Library |
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Men's Club |
Womens Sunshine Band |
Essex Rural Communities
Council |
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Infant Welfare Committee |
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Our paper archive has
several documents that relate to the planning, the building and opening of the
Village Hall...
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the original plan dated 1936 |
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Robert Norton’s wedding reception photographed outside the Village
Hall in 1939. (probably
one of the earliest in the Hall) |
The Revd Bill Randall, with his
daughter outside the Village Hall in the early1950s |
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Jubilee party in 1977 |
Polling Day in 2016 |
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In 2018 the committee decided it was
time to upgrade the entrance hall to include new toilet facilities, clockrooms and
a wider entrance. A short video was made as part of the fundraising activities
and remains on Youtube...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOkc6AZKITg
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architect’s
original concept sketch |
plaque in the entrance
hall listing the sponsors |
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the opening ceremony
in August 2019 |
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today the Village Hall remains the centre of
village social events and the base for many local societies and clubs
it has its own website at... http://www.goldhangervillagehall.co.uk/
and a gallery of past events at... http://www.goldhangervillagehall.co.uk/gallery
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