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BRIANTSPUDDLE AND AFFPUDDLE
OBITUARIES
NEWS

years have found the time to pop in and be good company for Mum,
spending time with her.
VILLAGE HALL NEWS
We will miss you every single day for the remainder of our lives Mum. We thank
you so much for your unselfishness and for making us the people we are today.
Chairs Report
You may not have lit up the wider world, but you lit up our world, and to the Briantspuddle Village Hall AGM 2018
four of us that is all that will ever matter.
Welcome everyone, it’s good to see so many
We love you Mum. God bless. people taking an interest in the Village Hall.
Especially those of you who regularly attend
An Open Letter to
Shirley events and activities here, and also those who
offer your help so cheerfully and willingly to assist in the smooth running of this
charity. Goodwill is such an important element in a small community.
Dear Shirley,
I will begin, in the hope that all present understand that Briantspuddle Village Hall
It goes without saying that is a charity run by a management committee of trustees for the benefit of the
everybody here today and people of this Parish.
many that cannot be present,
will miss you, but this is my letter We operate under a Lease and Trust Deed, with the Parish Council being the
so I say: ‘I will miss you’. putative owners of the Hall . . . .again, for the benefit of the people of this Parish.
How could it be otherwise – The history to this is that upon the sale of the Debenham Estate Sir Piers
after all, apart from a few Debenham bought the Hall for £250 ‘on behalf of himself and other members of
people present I have known the family’, and offered it to The Parish for £150, the Parish accepted the offer and
you longer than anyone. it was agreed (at a public meeting) to borrow £160 (the extra £10 being for legal
costs, oh how things have changed) The Parish Council borrowed the money and
I knew you before any of your children were born, and looking at them today - the conveyance was completed in 1955.
that is saying something!
The Hall was run by the Parish Clerk from then on with various sub committees
We must have met in 1954/5 - nearly 64 years ago. Wherever did all that time looking into ways that the management could be more efficient, and less of a
go?
burden to the Parish clerk and Council. Finally in 1983 the Hall was leased and
Shirley, you were always so loving, lovable and kind. You were always so became the newly formed Charity with a committee of ‘Management Trustees,
patient – Job could have taken lessons from you! and with named members of the Parish Council becoming the ‘Holding Trustees’
of the Charity.
Patience in your case was of course an essential
attribute: after all you were married to my brother! It was about this time that my family and I moved into the village and I was
enticed into joining the Committee for the 1st time!
When I think of how you have been over the last year
or so, it would be easy to forget the pretty, vivacious Some time later I joined the Parish Council over a ROW issue that had potential
and bubbly young woman that I knew. effects for access to Lee Woods.
I have not forgotten. Next came my 2nd co-option onto the Village Hall Committee where I was asked
to follow up on a request by Purbeck District Council to modernise and rationalise
It seems a lifetime ago now, but I recall clearly after I the (frankly decrepit) Village Hall and its environs, even if plans had to be
had left home before I was 17 years old and was living implemented piecemeal.

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