The Village Hall - a little bit of history

The Village Hall was opened around 1960 and was built with funds raised by many dedicated locals, organising fetes and many other activities to buy bricks at 6d each (two and a half pence).

Notable contributors to the effort of building the hall were :- Don Churchill, he did much of the brick laying and woodwork, he was also heavily involved with Barnston Football Club especially in the first fifteen years of it's life when he was the Club Secretary. Mr Salmon, supplied and erected the iron support structure. Mr Gill, not himself a Barnston resident but initially a passer by who couldn't bear to see the growing pile of bricks and little progress on the building, he eventually couldn't stand it anymore and volunteered to help Don Churchill build the hall (see picture below).

Information and photographs supplied by Mrs Nora Churchill