Pictorial Kesgrave 1994 - Part 5
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Keith Beecroft Copyright 2008
Scout Hut and British Legion Hall, located on Church ground, behind the Church. A view showing the adjacent grassed area now fenced off as a Church Car Park in 1993.
Council Offices, Ropes Drive, officially opened by Mr. Crispen Rope on 13th August 1993. Purpose built to house the ever increasing volume of parish council documents and for meeting rooms.
All Saints Church, floodlit
Catholic Church of the Holy Family & St. Michael, floodlit
The Farmhouse, Public House, floodlit
The Bell Inn, Public House, floodlit
Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter, the four seasons photographed in the woods, Dobbs lane.
The new access roundabout and road with its cycle track and subway, leading to the Grange Farm Housing Development, started in 1989. Situated adjacent to the Catholic Church and opposite the road to the sinks. A detached bungalow and the Grange Nursery Greenhouses, specialising in carnations were demolished to make way for the road.
Compare these views with the previous two. Two or three years have seen the Church extended, the landscaping of the subway access and the buildings completed up to the roundabout. The cycle track follows part of the original drive serving Grange Farm.
Kesgrave High School, situated on the north side of the Main Road, formally Kesgrave Secondary Modern School and Kesgrave Area School. Built in 1930-31 and opened in October 1931, teaching all local children from the age of 5 years upwards and children over 11 years from the surrounding villages. Captain R.F. Harrison was the first headmaster in charge of 183 pupils. The pedestrian subway under the Main Road was constructed in 1960 as a condition of further expansion to the parish, originally exclusively for school use with the north entrance being in the school grounds.
This large extension with another wing to the rear, a new assembly hall and workshops was built in the 1960s in the typical style of the era. Further extensions were added to rear in the late 1980s.
A rear view of the High School, showing the single storey extensions and the open area which served as the general sports area until the recent reclamation of land to the side of the school and the construction of new football pitches
Kesgrave Youth Club, constructed in 1966 within the grounds of the High School. Officially opened by John Mcgregor of Anglia Television, it contains a coffee bar, lounge, games room etc., for the use of local young people aged 14 to 21. It is also home to the Three Bears Playgroup.
Kesgrave Heath School, Bell Lane, Infant and Primary education, opened by Benjamin Britten in 1954 with an original roll of 261 pupils. The Main Road School then became a secondary school for 11 year olds and upwards.
Kesgrave War Memorial Community Centre, Twelve Acre Approach, off Bell lane. Built by local company F J Construction and financed by the Developers of the Grange Farm Housing Scheme, replacing the old K.W.M.C.C. Hall and grounds, removed in 1989, to construct the new access road and roundabout.
Community Hall and Function Centre, rear view shown prior to the Memorial Gardens being completed and the building of the Bowls Pavilion.
Kesgrave Kinderplay Area, adjacent to the Community Centre Hall, Twelve Acre Approach.
Bowls Pavilion, adjacent to the Community Centre Hall, built in 1992.
Bowls Green, shown in use on the Kesgrave Fun Day in 1992. The Community Centre Hall is seen in the background.
Cricket Pavilion and Changing Rooms at the Community Centre Sports Ground, seen here being used to provide teas on the Family Fun Day in 1992.
Tennis Courts, Community Centre Sports Ground, utilising the rear of the Cricket Pavilion for Changing facilities.
Bandstand, Community Centre, Twelve Acre Approach. Erected in memory of local lad, Daniel Maskey. Shown on the Official opening in June 1992 at the Family Fun Day.
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