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City Hall was commissioned to replace the Commercial Buildings in Patrick Street which dated from 1805 and had served as the town hall from 1847. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In the mid-1980s, the council leaders at Limerick Corporation decided that the council needed larger premises; the site they selected at Merchant's Quay had been occupied by an old ...
The first BBC weather forecast was a shipping forecast, broadcast on the radio on behalf of the Met Office on 14 November 1922, and the first daily weather forecast was broadcast on 26 March 1923. In 1936, the BBC experimented with the world's first televised weather maps, brought into practice in 1949 after World War II. The map filled the ...
It was the subject of the world's first webcam, created by Quentin Stafford-Fraser and Paul Jardetzky in 1991. To save people working in the building the disappointment of finding the coffee machine empty after making the trip to the room, a camera was set up providing a live picture of the coffee pot to all desktop computers on the office network.
This is a list of city and town halls in the Republic of Ireland. The list is sortable by building age and height, and, where relevant, provides a link to the record on the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (NIAH) database, which is currently maintained by the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage .
A webcam is a video camera which is designed to record or stream to a computer or computer network. They are primarily used in video telephony, live streaming and social media, and security. Webcams can be built-in computer hardware or peripheral devices, and are commonly connected to a device using USB or wireless protocol.
City Hall plaque listing mayors of Waterford from 1284 to 1553. The building was commissioned as the assembly rooms and theatre for the city. [1] The site selected contained sections of the medieval city wall, dating from circa 1150. [2] It was designed by John Roberts in the neoclassical style, built with a painted render finish and was ...
This is a list of city and town halls in Northern Ireland. The list is sortable by building age and height and provides a link to the listing description where relevant. The list, which was compiled using the list of 1,000 Largest Cities and Towns in the UK by Population, published by The Geographist, to ensure completeness, [1] includes nearly 30 surviving buildings.
Newbridge, officially known by its Irish name Droichead Nua (pronounced [ˈd̪ˠɾˠɛçəd̪ˠ ˈn̪ˠuə]), is a town in County Kildare, Ireland.While the nearby Great Connell Priory was founded in the 13th century, the town itself formed from the 18th century onwards, [2] and grew rapidly alongside a military barracks which opened in the early 19th century.