The hall is now in the process (April 2012) of being bought from the local council by the people of Beccles and it certainly shows. Up until recently I had found that over the past few years the hall had been less and less looked after, I think the council had given up spending any money on it and the people running the hall seemed to have given up completely (dirty & smelly toilets, rubbish left around and just generally not nice).that is until a couple of weeks ago, I went to see a show at the hall which was being performed by a local (WLOG) group and what a nice surprise I had, from the moment I walked in the hall I could tell something was different.The foyer was clean,tidy and smelled nice, the bar has been completely re-modeled and had a good selection of beer/wine/cider and snacks and the toilets smelled fresh and looked very clean.I spoke to one of the volunteers on duty that night and understand that the actual change over from council to local people is at present on-going and there are indeed a lot of plans in the pipeline to make the hall a great venue for Beccles once again.. Good Luck to everyone involved.. read more