Sale of the Institute & Development of new Village Hall

Architect's drawing of early concept of new Village Hall, 1973

Herbie Goddard, Chairman of the Village Hall Committee, and of the Parish Council, during the development of the new Village Hall.

F.G.Standfield, Vice Chair of the Village Hall and the man who first put the proposal to sell off the Institute and build a new Village Hall. He died in March 2007.

Lynton White, who was prepared to guarantee £20,000 against the building costs.

Judges at fund-raising beauty contest. John Sparrow, organiser, second from right, with William Douglas Home (right) and Lady Dacre, judges in Beauty Queen contest

John Sparow announces Jenny Wheeler as Queen, with attendant Diana Adams

Fund-raising fancy dress event, Pam Sparrow as clown.

East Meon bunny girls at fund-raising dinner. Left to right, Joan Blackman, Pam Sparrow, Hazel Pamplin, Dawn Adams, Jenny Wheeler, at back Sheila Newbury and Joyce Colbourne.

'Serving girls' dressed as Four Seasons, Sheila Newbury, Joyce Colebourne, Joan Blackman, Jenny Wheeler

Peter Marinelli, Portsmouth FC star, with John Sparrow at fund-raising soccer match.

Women's soccer team, with Peter Marinelli. Left to right, Sharon Brown, Pat Elliott, Julie Cannings, Diane Adams, P.M., Fiona Tindell, Joan Blackman, front row, Mary Crockford, Joyce Colbourne, Dawn Adams, Brenda Kirby, Mrs Whiteley and Julie Goddard. Pam Sparrow also played, but took the photo.

Fundraising women's soccer match versus Portsmouth FC team.

County to get protest over village halls Basingstoke Gazette 29 3 74

Education Bill to be cut by more than £3mill

Report on the fundraising for the building of the Hall

Early floor plan, with Club Room and Committee/Storage Room

North and south elevations of early design.

Coloured west elevation and block plan for early design.

Undated site plan

July architect's panel, end elevation, plan of landscape websize

July 1973 side elevations

Architect's panel, end elevation, plan of landscape websize

July 1973 Floor plan of hall. Note that a Committee room was proposed where gents' toilets now are.

Herbie Goddard, Chair of Village Hall Committee and Parish Council, topping out Village Hall

John Sparrow, fund-raiser for the new village hall, with Queen of the Hall.

PDFs attached to this page relate to the process of selling off the old Institute. Minutes of meetings of the Management Committee, not digitised, are in the Library, X/12.

Sales Particulars and correspondence report the price achieved through private sale, and the building of the new Village Hall, The originals are in the Library, X/3. Other correspondence, with agents, auctioneers &c, which have not been digitised, are in the Library, X/4.

Two PDFs contain a report by Michael Blakstad, summarising the events covered in these documents, and a Timeline of the process.

The text of a speech by given by F.G.Standfield in 1995 records the full story of the decision to demolish and sell off the old Institute and build a new Village Hall off Workhouse Lane. A letter written by F.G.S. in 1994 concerning faulty roofing at the Hall is also attached as a PDF. Originals in the Library, X/5.

Extensive correspondence with potential grant awarding bodies is contained in the Library X/6 – X/10, including Newsletters issued by the Village Hall Committee in 1973 (some documents are large files). Notes summarising key points are attached as a PDF.

Architects drawings showing designs from January to July are in the Library, X/11.

X/12, large files, contains new Constitution of Village Hall, Policy of Secrecy, Survey of possible sites and Statement on proposed size of Hall. Several of these documents were presented at an Open Meeting in July 1973.

Manuscript of the speech given by Herbie Goddard at the Opening of the Hall.