Wallingford Town Hall

About six or seven years ago my wife and I were spending a weekend in Bournemouth in late autumn. On the Saturday morning we decided to visit and explore nearby Wimbourne. After visiting the minster we went into the nearby small museum. There was a garden at the rear of the museum in which there was a tearoom. After looking around the museum we went to the tearoom. Being outside the summer season there were very few visitors and there was no one else in the tearoom other than my wife and I and a lady museum volunteer who was serving. We sat and chatted to her as we had our refreshments. She told us she was interested in history and worked as a volunteer at the museum for just a few hours a week. She asked where we came from and we told her we lived in Wallingford. She said "That's a coincidence , I used to live in Wallingford when I was a youngster". I asked her where and said "At the Cross Keys public house which my parents ran". The first coincidence - this was next door to where we lived. When she and her parents lived at the Cross Keys it was probably over ten years before I moved to Wallingford. She went on to say that over the previous few weeks she had been sorting out her garage and had come across a model of Wallingford town hall which her father had made to commemorate the Queen's silver jubilee. She said she had wanted to somehow return it to Wallingford but had been wondering how to in view of the fact she no longer had contacts there. My wife and I were back in Bournemouth a few months later, arranged to meet up with her and she handed the model of the town hall to me. I took it back to Wallingford and presented it to Wallingford museum where it is now displayed. This seemed a remarkable coincidence. To meet a volunteer museum worker whose hours at the museum in Wimbourne just coincided with the time my wife and I called in; we chose to call in to the tearoom; we engaged in conversation in the absence of other visitors; she had as a youngster lived next door to our house in Wallingford; she had just sorted out her garage and found the old model of Wallingford town hall; she had been wondering how to return it to Wallingford; then we turn up! There seems more chance of winning the National Lottery!