Previous to the year 1914 any concerts, dancers, dinners, parish teas, etc, took place in the village school or in the old dining hall at the Friends’ School. If a stage were needed it would be constructed from forms and trestle table tops. Of course no dances were permitted at the Friends’ School in those days; only the use of the piano was allowed

Quite a lot of use was made of the village school for concerts, dances, country dancing classes, Morris dancing and a great annual event – the Sibford Club Dinner. It must be remembered that up to this time there was no means of getting to Banbury except on Thursday and Saturday by the carrier’s horse and cart, the journey taking approximately 4 hours, and even in late 1914 the moving pictures had only just arrived in Banbury.

During 1919-33 Mr Frank Lascelles was identified with a wooden hut that was used as a village hall, the entrance being opposite the Co-operative stores. After his death the people of Sibford learnt with dismay that the hall they thought belonged to Sibford had in fact never done so and further that it was, with the rest of the Lascelles estate, heavily mortgaged. A meeting of the Sibfords was called and a committee was appointed to meet the mortgagee and fight to save the hall if possible, and any of the furnishings. After many meetings it was found impossible to save the hall but most of the furnishings were saved. It was decided to start a fund for obtaining a new hall, and meanwhile the committee took steps to rent the old hall from the mortgages as a headquarters for events to swell this fund. Up to the outbreak of the 1939 war various efforts had raised upwards of £250 (about £17,000 in today’s terms). A goodly amount of this sum was raised by an annual fête held in the grounds of the Friends’ School.

After the war a coach house and workshop in the Ferris were converted into a room for social activities, and it was in great demand. Meanwhile, the hall committee continued its fund-raising work, taking the fund into the thousands. Eventually, a site was purchased and building plans drawn up. The present building was completed in 1957.