Drinkstone Village Hall (Lost)


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Reference WMO/255793

Address:

Drinkstone Village Hall

Gedding Road

Drinkstone

IP30 9SZ

England

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Type: Non freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Roadside
Description: Hall
Materials:
  • Stone Portland stone
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: In 30th July 1920, the Ministry of Munitions (by direction of the Disposal Board, Huts and Building Materials Section) held an auction at the former First World War Elmswell Airfield (sometimes referred to as Great Ashfield). One of the huts on the site (an officers mess, cookhouse block) with dimensions of approximately 71ft by 29ft, corresponds to the dimensions of what became the Drinkstone War Memorial Institute (Village Hall). In 1921, a piece of land (Elm Tree Meadow) in Drinkstone was bought for the purpose of erecting a village hall as a war memorial for the parish. The hall was damaged by fire in 2010. The hall was carefully dismantled during April 2011, with the major part of the origial village hall being saved. At least five of the six roof trusses were salvaged and the majority of the walls and floor sections were in good enough condition to be kept. The original corrugated roof, sadly, was in a poor state and could not be reasonably used again.
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LEST WE FORGET/ DRINKSTONE VILLAGE HALL/ IS A WAR MEMORIAL/ 1914-1918 AND 1939-1945/ PRESENTED BY DRINKSTONE RBL, 1995, 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF VE AND VJ DAYS

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