| Introduction
The 3rd Gidea Park Scout hall is divided into two main sections plus an additional new adjoining hall used for storage. The main section of the hall is where the various groups meet; the beavers, cubs, scouts, brownies and guides all meet here. The other section of the hall is where the ventures meet; they have a hall to themselves. This section of the hall is known as the venture hall. The ventures have a history of decorating the hall themselves in suitably tasteless colours. Before the renovation of 1999, the hall had not been decorated since around 1993. The circumstances surrounding this previous decoration are still not fully known but is believed to have been started one Sunday before church parade by two of the members of the RVU at the time. Allen Matthews had provided a tin of paint in the only colour he could find and told these two members to paint over the obscenities which another member had painted on the wall. This is the reason why the venture hall ended up in the fetching scheme of pink walls with black trim. When a group of scouts joined the RVU early in 1995
they vowed that something should be done about the tacky decor which was
by now already showing it's age. However, a more ambitious project
was currently under way, namely the building of the new store. So
any plans had to be put on ice. There were many plans been thrown
around the RVU at the time, one plan even made it as far as a neat drawing
indicating what was to be done. But for now they remained as plans.
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