The Old Thatched House at Shirley.
A sub-committee was set up to consider all possibilities regarding the provision of a new headquarters. This was made up of Dave Pragnell (the Club Chairman), Peter Philipps, Bernie Venes, Jack Stanfield, Ern. Domoney Bill Parsons and myself; meantime the Old Thatched House at Shirley provided a temporary venue for Friday evenings and the 1971 AGM was held there. It was not a suitable venue for committee meetings as there was no private room available so these were held at the Shirley Hotel. Having owned our own premises for 14 years the sub-committee, feeling that hiring would be a backward move, we started to look for a site on which we could consider building and Southampton City Council was approached. Their response was somewhat surprising, they said they owned numerous pieces of land and suggested that we look around and, if we found a suitable place, they would tell us if they owned it and if they would be prepared to lease it to us. We looked but did not find.
