Much Hadham Public Hall Company was set up in 1887 and built the hall for £600. The Billiard Room (now called the Green Room) was added seven years later. The Hall was used as a reading room (the daily papers): a gym: for Petty Sessions, and it also had a library. Miss Gayton’s picture of “The Meet of the Puckeridge Hunt” was used as a curtain at the front of the stage (it is now mounted on the wall at the rear of the stage.

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After World War II the building was bought by the Committee of the Victory Fund and gifted to the people of Much Hadham. In 1987 it was extensively modernised with walkways, a sitting out area and a second kitchen being added.

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The Hall is technically owned in Trust by the Parish Council (as holding trustees),  but is independently managed by the Much Hadham Village Hall Management Committee which is registered as a charitable trust (302431). Neither Much Hadham Parish Council, East Herts District Council or Hertfordshire County Council have any routine financial responsibility for the running of the hall - though all do make periodic grants, and supports the hall in other ways. As such we have no regular statutory funding and rely primarily on hall income and donations to maintain the facility.

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Acknowledgements to Jean Page – Much Hadham: A Millenium Scrapbook from which much of this history was derived.