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Comments, complaints, broken links, disappointed hopes - please contact the caretaker. 31/07/2009 |
St Albans Church Hall - Memories [St Albans centenary] [History of St Albans] [Memories of St Albans Church]
Well, what can I say? She’s done it all in her time: She’s hosted Church Services, and not only when they were building the Church next door; Passover services and meals, Easter Eve services, Sunday School, and Sunday Services when next door’s boiler broke down. She’s listened to the laughter of playgroups, the clicking of needles (and tongues, I’ll bet) of the St. Alban’s Working Party, the mutterings of the MU at the lack of tables, cutlery and crockery, etc, etc. She’s smiled down on parties and Church festivities, on those learning to dance and those playing badminton. I bet she’s looked away a few times from the fake injuries being treated during St. John’s Ambulance training sessions, and looked with pity on the bored tellers at election time. She’s even tolerated an archer practicing. I suspect her favourite task was providing shelter for all those families of young birds, but not perhaps the criminal who lived under the stage for a few days. No telegram from the Queen on her hundredth birthday! Still, she’s always just quietly got on with her job, and served her Parish well. Thanks, St. Alban’s Hall, for a job well done. Kate Wilmot (On the closure of St Albans Church and Hall Autumn 2003) [St Albans centenary] [To the history of St Albans] [Memories of St Albans Church] |
