Neasham Reading Room

  • Description

    "Welcome to the village hall serving the residents of Neasham and surrounds near Darlington....The Reading Room was built in 1902 by Sir Thomas Wrightson, owner of Neasham Hall on Sockburn Lane as a meeting room for his estate workers and newspapers were provided for reading....The Wrightson family generously donated the Reading Rooms to the village in 1955 to be run by a committee, and it has been run as a village hall up to the present day...."
  • Owner

    Neasham Reading Room
  • Source

    Local (Co-Curate)
  • License

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  • Further information

    Link: http://www.neashamreadingroom.org.uk/
    Resource type: Text/Website
    Added by: Splat
    Last modified: 4 years, 6 months ago
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    Picture Taken: Unknown
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