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John Nickalls

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About three years back I attended a Quiz and Chips evening and very good it was too, I have because of other commitments been unable to attend since then.
However on that evening one of the questions asked was when did the building open as a Village Hall?  I think my answer was 1946 but it was declared as 1949.I knew that the answer was incorrect because my father was presented with something as a token of his fifty years service to the hall a year or two before he died in 1998, but to be fair the Question Master used the web site for his question and of course 1949 is what it told him.
Recently I have found some old documents which my father had and there is correspondence dated 1946 which probably refer to early discussion about the granary being converted to the Village Hall which in its original concept was for service men returning from the war.It was definitely open in 1947 when a piano was purchased for £75.00.
We may therefore have to compromise and perhaps 1947 is correct but 1949 certainly it is not.
In conclusion I hope that there is a Village Hall archive in which I would like to see these documents placed and to that end I would be glad to meet someone or attend a meeting to look through to what needs to be kept.

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Web Manager

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Hi John,

When I was on the village hall committee about ten years ago, we found some old documents; one that said it became a village hall on 31st December 1949 (you can also check this on the Charity Commission website).At the time we did consider having a 50th year anniversary to mark this event, which would have tied into the Millennium celebrations (we didn’t do this in the end).If you check the very first Village Hall Newsletter (on this website) it gives some details taken from those old documents.Also, if my memory serves me right, there were some earlier documents, which included the names of Nickalls and Knight – I think they signed the Village Hall Constitution.

I suspect the documents are still with the village hall committee so you could contact them if you wanted to view them.



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John Nickalls

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Sorry to have to disagree with anonymous replier to my offering about the village hall opening, but I have the receipt for the piano purchased 13th May 1947,and better still a receipt for 10 cwts each of coke and coal dated November 1947 which I have to presume was to keep people warm in the hall. Even better is a copy of an acknowledgement of receipt of a £100.00 loan from Mr. Wesley Corston dated 21st. October 1946 which was to be repaid in full 12 months from that date. I knew Wesley Corston as a prominent member and benefactor of Spooner Row Methodist Chapel and this loan reflected his generous nature.
There is also a receipt for £45.15.00 being an amount raised by Tom Lord as a welcome home fund for ex-service men of Spooner Row , Suton and Wattlefield dated 18th. March 1948
My Sunday School teacher Eric Youngs was I think the first chairman of the committee, my primary school teacher Maggie Lain was treasurer and her niece Betty Kvet treasurer.
The cricket club was also formed in 1946 and I filled in the team at 9 years old when there was a vacancy and teas were served in the village hall by the ladies, perhaps all this is sufficient to convince replier that it was not 1949

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Web Manager

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I think then in the light of what you have said is that the Old Granary was used as an informal meeting place (for returning soldiers etc) from 1946 until it became "officially" a village hall on 31st December 1949.  Check the Charity Commission website; the village hall charity number is 304070, this is when the trust deed proclaiming it a village hall (and a registered charity) was signed.  I hope this helps.

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Peter frampton

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John

I agree with web master or mistress that the  Village hall records say that it was given to the men returning from the War for meeting socially and for sports activities.
The paper work is somewhere  at a solicitors in Wymondham if my memory serves me well.  I shall investigate there where abouts and contact you to meet and discuss this more.

This may take a couple of weeks due to holiday commitments

Regards

Peter  

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Web Manager

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Hi Peter,
Maybe Wymondham Town Archive would be interested in the old documents of the village hall also.  They keep a really good selection of material of local interest.  http://wymondhamtc.norfolkparishes.gov.uk/town-archive/


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Web Manager wrote:

Hi Peter,
Maybe Wymondham Town Archive would be interested in the old documents of the village hall also.  They keep a really good selection of material of local interest.  http://wymondhamtc.norfolkparishes.gov.uk/town-archive/


 



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Peter Frampton

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John.
If you would contact me. I have the village hall documents and we can arrange a meeting to view the documents.
 We could then approach Wymondham town archive with a veiw of copying the documents for their archives. 

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