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Latest news:        All planning conditions have been met so the build can now go on to completion

28th July 2010

Click here to read the long road to laying the first brick

Funding Gained

EON                       £2500

NKDC                    £25000

WREN                    £50000

Garfield Trust         £10000

WE STILL REQUIRE ANOTHER £70,000 TO COMPLETE THE PROJECT FULLY

So here we are.  Eight  years from the original idea and North Kyme has laid the first brick of our new hall. We are on our way to achieving a goal that at times did not seem possible.

New hall gets seal of approval from village hall committee
	Pictured, the village hall committee on a site visit, looking at the lay out of the new hall, May 2010

Let the brickwork begin
	Mid March 2010 and the team of brickies have started.  The internal walls are also being built allowing for the first time to have an idea on the size and scale of the building layout.

The Roof structure Goes up

The pictures here show the roof beams being fitted all ready for the brick work to start

We Have Concrete!!!

After what seemed like an age waiting for the cold weather to clear, the first stage of concrete was finally on the 27th March, This will now allow the brick layers to start.  The hall should shortly begin to take shape.

So an hours work done and it feels just the right time to strip off and have a nice cup of tea....

Steel Structure

After a change in plan the hall structure was re-designed to be built on a steel frame.

		The pictures show the crack steel erection team, who appear to be doing more eating and posing than actually building anything. To the left, Simon Andrews holding up the steel structure whilst the builders go for a cup of tea.

In the making a fired porcelain plaque.  The plaque was offered to be made by Frenchman Erick Le Wooz after a chance meeting in The Plough with Glynn Pout.  The manufacture of this kind of kiln dried plaque is notoriously difficult.  The picture you see here is of the second plaque. The beautiful plaque is now finished and will sit with pride at the entrance to our new hall

The First Dig

		In August 2009 the build began. Pictured is Simon Maplethorpe with Terry Handley, chairman of the village hall looking on.

		A grant was received from EON  to help secure the hall site. A set of gates were commissioned, to be built by the North Kyme Youth Workshops.  Many an eyebrow was raised when the gates were fitted.  However, the aim was achieved, a completely unique set of gates built by local craftsmen.

Geoff Panton (chair of the parish council) signing over the money raised from the sale the village allotments to the chairman of the steering committee, Glynn Pout. This was the money needed to by the new land to kick start the project.
		John Goddard, chairman of the village hall buying the first in the "Buy a Brick Campaign"
	Once the plans had been decided, an open         public exhibition was held for the residents of Kyme to have their final chance to peruse the plans before the build begins.

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