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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 ...
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 ...
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. [1] [2]
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.
Ovens (Irish: Na hUamhanna), formerly also Athnowen, [1] is a small village adjacent to the town of Ballincollig, County Cork, Ireland. The 2006 census recorded that the population of the village was 1,703 - an increase of 62.1% from the 2002 Census. [2] Ovens is within the Cork North-West Dáil constituency.
The venue was Northern Ireland Building of the Year in 2008, [45] and won the Allianz Arts and Business Award 2009 [46] and the Green Apple Award 2008. It has also hosted the All Ireland Confined Drama Finals (2008), the North West Music Festival, the Stage Write Schools Drama Festival, Sounds Like Summer Music Festival, Strabane Drama Festival ...
The City Hall, Dublin (Irish: Halla na Cathrach, Baile Átha Cliath), originally the Royal Exchange, is a civic building in Dublin, Ireland. It was built between 1769 and 1779, to the designs of architect Thomas Cooley , and is a notable example of 18th-century architecture in the city.