Benn Hall

The Benn Hall is a conference, seminar, exhibition, concert and party venue located in Rugby, Warwickshire, England.

It was designed by Ernest Prestwich,[1] and is named after George Charles Benn who in his will of 1895 left £6,000 to the local council to construct a building that would be useful to the town.

There is another Benn Hall, also dedicated to George Charles, in the village of Grandborough a few miles south of Rugby.

In the 1960s Benn Hall became renown as a venue which attracted some famous names in the world of contemporary music: Some of the acts which performed there included John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, John Lee Hooker, The Small Faces, Pink Floyd, Status Quo, The Searchers, The Foundations, The Kinks, The Animals, and The Bee Gees.

The Beatles had been booked to perform at Benn Hall in February 1963, but did not honour the date, as by then they had become national stars.