Harleston
Social & Wine Club - its origins going back to the nineteen sixties, has
been hiring Needham Coronation Village Hall for monthly meetings for the past
seventeen years and what changes we have witnessed over those years, to our
club and to the village hall itself! We
can recall the old toilets and long before the annex was built.
The improvements to the old hall have
been amazing, all due to the hard work done by the Management Committee of the
day.
The hall has suited all the requirements
of our club, with the well equipped kitchen to the library, where we used to
hold our wine competitions when most of our members were home wine makers. In those days we would invite members from
other wine clubs from around East Anglia, in May for a buffet supper and
October for a Cheese and Wine evening, having wine competitions at each event.
Everyone loved coming to Needham Hall.
We could have up to seventy members and guests to cater for and
entertain.
As our members have ‘matured’ over the
years we had to cut down on these activities and have just kept these events,
plus others, to ourselves. Winemaking
stopped several years ago but the social part has kept going.
As our membership has gradually reduced,
decisions had to be made about the future of the club. Sadly, in February this
year, 2018, at our AGM, it was decided to close our club; so our happy
association with Needham Village Hall comes to an end. Some of us hope to keep in touch at the
Needham Summer BBQ so it’s farewell for now.
Many thanks to all those people who keep
Needham Village Hall running.
Long may it last.
Brenda Hider (HarlestonSocial & Wine Club Secretary
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