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Swindon Town Hall is a former municipal building in Swindon, England which was built in 1891 to be a centrepiece of New Swindon. It is currently used by Swindon Dance, a national dance agency. It is currently used by Swindon Dance, a national dance agency.
The Swindon, Marlborough & Andover had planned to tunnel under the hill on which Swindon's Old Town stands but the money ran out and the railway ran into Swindon Town railway station, off Devizes Road in the Old Town, skirting the new town to the west, intersecting with the GWR at Rushey Platt and heading north for Cirencester, Cheltenham and ...
The town hall was designed by Sampson Sage and E Robertson in the neoclassical style, built in ashlar stone by a local builder, George Major, [4] and was completed in 1854. [ 2 ] [ 5 ] The main frontage has five bays separated by full-height Tuscan order pilasters , with arched windows on the ground floor, casement windows on the first floor ...
This is a list of city and town halls in Wales. 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 over 70 surviving buildings.
Part of West Swindon, a council estate built 1980–84. Walcot East; Built from 1956. Walcot West (Old Walcot) Built from the mid-1930s. Westmead; Westlea; The West Swindon shopping centre, the first out of town, has a supermarket and other small shops; later the Link Centre, a leisure centre with an ice rink and swimming pool, was added. West ...
The Swindon Art Gallery collection was established in 1944 by a local benefactor, H. J. P. Bomford, through a significant donation of artworks. [1] Until June 2021 it was displayed in Apsley House, a 19th-century former house [2] on the corner of Bath Road and Victoria Road in Swindon's Old Town, [3] but had to leave when Swindon Borough Council decided in the summer of 2021 that the building ...
Arrived alongside 3717 City of Truro. On loan from the National Railway Museum as a replacement for 4003 Lode Star & The GWR Railcar. [6] GWR 7800 Class 7821 Ditcheat Manor - Built in 1950. Displayed in the nearby Swindon Designer Outlet; GWR 9400 Class 9400 – Built in 1947. Part of the National Collection
Map of the Borough of Swindon and major settlements. The borough encompasses the Swindon urban area and surrounding countryside to the north, east and south, including the town of Highworth. It comprises the former Swindon Municipal Borough and a further 18 civil parishes: [10] [11] Bishopstone (with Hinton Parva) Blunsdon; Castle Eaton ...