Farewell to Victoria Hall

Our lectures were for many years held at the Victoria Hall in Greenyard, until last December when we finally said goodbye to a dear creaky old friend.

Victoria Hall is a timber hall covered in corrugated iron, erected in 1906 and donated to the parish by John Bentley, a well-known local builder and benefactor whose name also appears on the foundation stone of the Town Hall. The hall's future is uncertain, but the structure is in a bad way and would be very expensive to restore.

Many local groups loved Victoria Hall to bits - literally! Our December 2008 meeting (above) was the last public event ever to be held there. The turnout was very good bearing in mind the bitterly cold evening - and the disconnection of the hall's gas heating a few months earlier!

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