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THE NEW CLUBHOUSE
At the Executive Committee meeting on the 11th of September 1964 Dr. Gange informed the committee that Woodbine House was on offer for sale by Esso at an asking price of between £4,000 to £4,500. This included the house, the grounds and the paddock. An area of 4.5 acres. A sub committee consisting of The President, Captain Secretary and Treasurer was formed with the instuction to view the property and to report back to the Executive Committee.
At the next meeting in October 1964 the committee discussed the purchase ‘at length’ and decided to make an offer of £3,500 for the property. After some discussion with Esso the offer was increased to £4,000 which was acceptable to Esso.
An Extraordinary General Meeting was held on the 6th of February 1965 where the proposal to buy Woodbine House was put before the members. A well attended meeting had many questions but the proposal to purchase Woodbine house which was proposed by Mr. H. Mac Symones and seconded by Mr. Tom Scott was confirmed by a large majority.
The committee then had the problem of raising that amount of money to pay for the purchase and also to make the alterations necessary to convert the house into a clubhouse. Luckily they must have had a sympathetic bank manager because the managed to get an overdraft of £8,000. A grant was applied for from the Ministry of Education and Science and after a lot of paperwork the committee obtained a grant of £4,650. However, on the 23th of August 1965 the committee were informed that “the promised figure of a grant of £4,650 would not be forthcoming due to the recently introduced credit squeeze”
At the next meeting on the 10th of October it was reported that “in a telephone conversation with the ministry in Cardiff the whole of the grant would be forthcoming and a letter was to follow”
A letter was received fro the ministry stating “that since Milford Haven was a development area the original grant would be applicable subject to conditions being fulfilled”
A development sub committee was formed to oversee the conversion of Woodbine House, estimates were obtained and the work started.
This was a very large and brave decision for the club to make for the committee of the day to take. The committee was not unanimous in making their decision but enough of the committee believed in the project to get it approved. They were described in a newspaper article as a “Go-ahead Executive Committee” Time has since shown that the correct decision was made and the Club went from strength to strength.
The picture below shows the new clubhouse and the picture below that shows the executive committee described as the go ahead committee.
The Go-ahead Executive Committee
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