Village Hall Series #276 - Toft People's Hall Multi-cache

When Toft school was closed in 1959 and the building became available for sale the Parish Meeting decided that it should be bought and turned into a Village Hall. It occurred to the people that they had a ‘heap of gold’ collected years before for this purpose, by then more than £300 which was a lot of money then. Jack as Treasurer was contacted and requested to hand over the cash. The cash book was produced and inscribed across the front was ‘Toft People’s Hall’. The members of the Parish interviewed Jack and told him that the money would be used towards the cost of the Village Hall. Jack was a stickler for doing things right. He told the meeting in his normal robust way that this cash had been raised for a ‘People’s Hall’ and he would only hand it over for that purpose. The ‘People’s Hall’ it had to be. Eventually the Council accepted defeat and for many years until the early 1980’s the notice board outside confirmed that though most ordinary villages had a ‘Village Hall’, Toft had a ‘People’s Hall’.

This is a multi cache and IS NOT at the published coordinates.

The cache is a 30ml tube.

At the published coordinates you will find a plaque in the wall above head height and above the information board. Check this out.

On the bottom of the plaque is the year 2000. The other year on the plaque is ABCD.

Checksum of all digits in the coordinates = 30

This cache is part of a series of caches which are placed at or near village halls and community centres. For details and statistics visit the Village Hall Series website Click here