Building Hook Village Hall - A Local Endeavour (Part 1)

An article drawing on informationrecorded in three Minute Books of the Village Hall Fund Committee, manuscript notebooks, which cover the period of March 1944 to April 1955.

Part One – Building the Hall (1944-1952) reveals the huge effort on the part of local villagers to build the hall during a time of rationing and supply shortages and their fundraising activities which created a calendar of events from whist drives, concerts, football matches and the annual Hook Show.