Topic – The Universal Hall
The Universal Hall is an iconic building at the heart of The Park Ecovillage, and was a formative element at a time when the Community expanded exponentially in the early 1970s. Similar to the Matrimadir
Complying with the grant and completing the Hall ‘By Others’
In 1982 we decided to complete the Universal Hall, as Vance Martin had managed to get the third World Wilderness Congress 1983 booked. This meant not only completing the Building but turning it from a
The Beginning of the Hall
I first visited The Findhorn Community as it was then known in 1974, with my ex-husband, Michael Shaw, and Nicholas and Henrietta Rose. Nick had heard about this ‘New Age Community” and wanted to visit
A Scottish Tourist Board grant to complete the Universal Hall
I think it must have been early in 1982 that Peter Caddy sent Roger Mostyn who was an architectural draftsmen, to persuade me to be the Project Manager to complete the unfinished Universal Hall. I
Memories of Painting the ceiling of the Hall
Peter Caddy was mesmerised by a rather suave interior designer called Ruurd who was ‘imported’ to help finish the interior of the Universal Hall. He delivered a mind-boggling ‘vision’ that included fabulously-costly and impractical materials
Remembering working on the Hall
Within a year of my initial arrival at Findhorn in November 1974, I was assigned to work on the completion of the Universal Hall roof.
Recalling the Crystals in the Hall
There were two generous-sized crystals, not quite the size of an adult’s fist. They’d been gifted in the late ‘70’s by a man from the USA, Ron Bonnewitz, who’d been ‘told’ while driving through one
How we got the land to build the Universal Hall
The Universal Hall was built in the grounds of The Park Building. How this site came into the possession of the community is described in Peter Caddy's autobiography In Perfect Timing p313+4. ...we realised the
We got married in the Universal Hall
Our wedding was the last major event in the Universal Hall for over 2 years. On 14th March 2020, on the eve of the Covid Pandemic, many guests sent their apologies, and we had to
Living Record – Building Universal Hall 1974-1983
This collection of articles and reports on the building of the Hall is compiled from contemporary issues of the Foundation's publications Findhorn News, Open Letter and One Earth. 1. THE BEGINNING April 1974 2. THE
