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CRASTER WAR MEMORIALS
World War One
The Memorials
The Fallen
Roll of Honour
World War Two
About the Project
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The Reading Room Extension
As a community, Craster decided to commemorate the war dead by building a facility for the use of the village, rather than by erecting a stone memorial. So it was that the building once called the 'reading room' is now called the 'memorial hall'. The original reading room was built in 1887 to commemorate Queen Victoria's Jubilee, in 1923 it was extended to provide a room for billiards, reading and games. The land was donated by the Craster family and the building financed by public subscription and the proceeds of a garden fete. £300 was raised, but this represented a shortfall of £50. This deficit was made up by holding a sale of donated goods. The extension was opened on September 14th 1923 by Mr. T. W. Craster
The exterior of the Reading Room extension from the Newcastle Chronicle, September 15th 1923 |
The following article appeared in the Newcastle Chronicle on September 15th 1923.
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