1946
In 1946, further land was gifted by Walter Pickford, extending the southern boundary, to enable a small extension to the hall for a cloakroom and toilets (where the current kitchen is located). This probably explains the slight changes to the window configuration. An additional strip of land (5 to 10 foot) was also added to the northern boundary.
1952
In 1952 there seems to have been a rental agreement between the County Education Council and the Trustees to rent out the hall as a school - presumably to cover for the period of refurbishment to the present school.
1959
On 30 April 1959 the Village Hall submitted a planning application which removed the fireplace (the hearthstone is still there - hall side to the hatch). Also, it added a kitchen, lobby, a lady’s cloakroom + WC, a men’s cloakroom + WC + urinal (no more buckets!) to what had previously been a single roomed hall. At para 5, of the application it was declared ‘Not a flood area’ – well, something has changed!
The Planning Application was quickly followed by a grant application on 1 May 1959, to the Ministry of Education, for funding (£683) to extend the hall to provide modern sanitation (remember the toilet facilities were a single ‘unisex’ bucket) and a kitchen. Interesting remarks on the village at Para 11 – Special Remarks: ‘This is rather a poor village. There are only two or three houses of any size, and the owners are not ‘village’ minded. One of them is now formed into ‘Flats’, occupation of which is rather temporary. A modernised hall should make quite a difference to village outlook and prove quite an acquisition when it is an accomplished fact.’
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