Noble Park Public Hall in 2003, and in 2017 after restoration.

In 1913 Alan Frank Buckley and Charles Luxford donated the allotments to the residents of Noble Park to build a public hall. At the time, residents raised money, under the Noble Park Public Hall Trust to build the original hall which was a small timber building.

Erected in 1925, is was good to see it close to original 100 years later.  In 1924 the trustees borrowed $4400 from the local council,  Shire of Dandenong, to erect a new brick hall. The title of the land was handed over to the council as security for repayment of the loan.

The two shopfronts at the front of the structure in the first picture were added in the 1970s. Thankfully these changes were reversed in the early 2000s, restoring the hall to its former glory.

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