One night in 2005

 

One November night in  2005 my wife |& I were woken up to the smell of smoke in our bedroom, not from out house but from outside. I looked out the window and noticed the Pavilion on fire and quickly phoned the fire brigade, turned out I was the third to do so. Nothing we could do so I went back to sleep.

Next morning I went out to see what had happened

Well I don't think they will be using the pavilion anymore

The roof was gone altogether

Just the beams remaining of the roof

The whole roof had gone

 

The piano survived

Firemen stood around talking after

Smoke still came from the building with debris outside

This is where it started, some one pilled up pallets and lit them, once the roof caught fire that was the end, what I saw was the roof going up. It's not the first time the pavilion has bee burned down, the old one in the rec was burnt as well.

The outcome was that a week or so later the whole place was pulled down. 5 years later they built a new pavilion which is much better that this one. I remain suspicious  how this one came to be burnt  down, a lot of people thought it did what it needed to. The new one is a lot more modern and up todate with solar panels and huge rain water tanks that are used for flushing the toilets rather than using mains water.

I only hope in 40 years they don't burn this one down as well

The new pavilion opened on the 25th May 2013 and since then has been in continuous use 

Take Care