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BEVERLEY’S historic and much loved Memorial Hall is to undergo an important programme of repairs and improvements costing up to £400,000.
The Beverley Memorial Hall Trustees, who own and run the Memorial Hall, said they were pleased to announce work to the Memorial Hall which will be undertaken in the near future and will last for approximately eight weeks.
The work will be carried out by the East Riding of Yorkshire Council on behalf of the Trustees and is being funded from proceeds of the council’s sale of the former Beverley Picture Playhouse.
The work will comprise two projects.
The first is to replace the main hall roof along with the main hall ceiling.
Essential masonry repairs will also be carried out while scaffolding is in place.
The second part of the work will involve replacing the building’s heating and electrical installations, which are in need of a substantial upgrade, including a new boiler.
During the Memorial Hall’s closure for the work, the Trust is also taking the opportunity to spend some of its own development fund to refurbish the toilets and kitchen.
It is thought that the total cost of the repairs and improvement work is likely to be somewhere between £300,000 and £400,00, although the tendering process is not yet complete.
Paul Jenkinson, Chairman of the Beverley Memorial Hall Trustees, said: “In recent years, various plans for redeveloping and improving the Memorial Hall have been considered.
“While these have not so far been realised because of financial constraints, the repair and maintenance work now agreed is an important step in securing a brighter future for the venue.
“I am pleased that we are now in a position where the council’s pledge to use the proceeds from the Picture Playhouse’s sale to benefit the Memorial Hall can be activated in this programme of works.”
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ERYC agreed in 2005 to earmark the proceeds from the sale of the Picture Playhouse for the redevelopment of Beverley Memorial Hall.
After the council successfully sold the Playhouse for redevelopment into an upmarket department store, the funds were transferred to the council in 2007.
The decisions on the Playhouse and Memorial Hall were taken after the Playhouse had stood empty for several years apart from occasional use as a cinema and arts venue and after an independent feasibility study found that Beverley could only sustain one such venue.
Beverley Memorial Hall was originally developed in 1951 from a redundant chapel of rest in dedication to local people who fell in the two world wars. It is run by a board of independent Trustees.
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