history 3
By 1990 we were ready to make a start, with grants promised for the first phase from both Stewartry District Council and Dumfries and Galloway Regional Council, and over the next year the shell of the building took shape. This building, now known to our members as the 'shed', was intended to form the auditorium, with a second section to follow of similar floor area but less high. However, the project took a new turn and the shed remained a shed.
Even as work was progressing on the shed, we learned that St Andrews Church was to close and was likely to come on the market. We took what was a very difficult decision at the time to buy the church, and to put the shed on the market.
By way of bridging finance, we arranged some interest free loans from supporters, and took a commercial loan. This all happened in 1992 and as it took until 2002 to sell the shed, these arrangements have only recently been unravelled.
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