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History of the New Milton Community Centre, 1960 - 2020

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5. Our First Community Centre & Later Move to a Permanent Home.

Our first Community Centre was in Station Road:
1925 Air Postcard of New Milton, shows the house Rosebank in Station Road where we had our first Centre in 1966 (the private house Ashcombe is opposite the Water Tower).
 
Map of Top End of Station Road.
The E W Gadd map in 1942 shows the Council Offices in Station Road & the Private House Ashcombe which was demolished in 1973 to make way for the current Community Centre in Osborne Road.
 
Another Arial photograph.

Our temporary home obtained in 1966.

Rosebank Station Road, private house, used as UDC offices, in 1951 used as first library then became first Community Centre - site now occupied by Osborne House parade of shops.

1972 Map
A 1972 map showing our first Community Centre in the old Council Offices in Station Road described in the booklet Acorn to Noble Oak as the "Council Office Centre".
 
Our Permanent Home from 1974, shown in 1977
Built on the site of the house Ashcombe in Osborne Road:

Following the addition of a First Floor Extension.

Ground Floor.

First Floor.


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