Village hall floor

The new floor in our village hall had its first real test on Tuesday evening when 128 people paid £10 each to see and hear the Budapest Cafe Orchestra playing their marvellous music on violin, guitar, double bass, accordian, balalaika and more (http://www.budapestcafeorchestra.co.uk/). Feet stamped to the rhythm of the music but no chair legs went through the floor, as happened at an event earlier in the year. The village hall building is a First World War Army hut moved to its present location from Salisbury Plain in 1923. Over the 95 years of its life the floor had rotted in parts as had some of the wall plate timbers under the floor which support the vertical beams holding up the roof joists. So in August the committee and friends (including Jenny) stripped out the old floor, replaced the rotten parts of the wall plates, fitted new joists and floor boards and sealed them. The photo shows the job half done.