Background History

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The Reading and Recreation Room was constructed in 1889 by the London Lead Company. The London Lead Company (hereafter called “The Company”) were Quakers who valued the education of men and male children. Indeed, The Company would not employ an uneducated man or male child. The Company was dissolved in 1905, largely due to the exhaustion of Lead Ore and the collapse of the industry; but the Reading and Recreation Room remained, together with a board of trustees.

On the 15th of June 1934, The Reading and Recreation Room was included in a scheme, arranged by The Charity Commissioners (hereinafter called “The Commissioners”) and, under The Charitable Trusts Act 1853, the Reading and Recreation Room was then approved as a charity.  

On 30th of December 1949 the then Trustees of The Reading and Recreation Room Charity (hereinafter called “The Charity”), applied to The Commissioners to sub-join the Charity with The Parish Council of Eggleston. The Constitution of The Reading and Recreation Room Charity was then laid down. This constitution is shown below. 

The Charity Commissioners made an Order in1949 that The Village Hall was to be “administered and managed….” by the Parish Council of Eggleston who shall be the Trustees of the Charity” (hereinafter called “The Trustees”).
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Further, The Charity Commissioners made an order that the land on which the Reading and Recreation Room stood, was to be transferred from The Official "Trustee of Charity Lands” to the Eggleston Parish Council “and the building and land altogether were to be used as a village Hall.
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The Commissioners also ordered that “The Trustees should have a Committee of Management to run the village hall, and that this Committee had to be made up as in the Charity’s Constitution”. 

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