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'Dilly-dallying'

10.5.1963 Clovelly Parish hall

After having been told by the chairman of the Parish Council, Mr J Prince: ‘Over the years we have been accused of dilly-dallying and it is time we reached a definite decision and acted upon it’, a Clovelly meeting on Tuesday gave the go-ahead for a parish hall.

It is nearly 20 years since the village decided that the hall should be built and playing field provided as a memorial to those who died in the war. But the project has been dogged by controversy about the most suitable site.

The late Hon. Mrs Asquith gave one at Yellary, but some villagers felt that the hall would be better situated at Berry Meadow or the Rectory.

Efforts to obtain these sites failed.

On Tuesday Mr Prince said the parish must make up its mind whether it wanted a hall on the Yellary site or no hall. Mr C Braund declared that everyone felt the whole business had gone on long enough.

Gazette article dated 10 May 1963

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