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The old town hall. The first town hall in South Shields was commissioned as a manorial courthouse by the Dean and Chapter of Durham in the Market Place in 1768. [2] The design included arcading on the ground floor to allow markets to be held, steps leading to a door on the first floor on the north side and Venetian windows on the first floor on the other sides. [2]
While ownership of the building was retained by the district council, the management of the town hall was passed to the Alyth Halls Association at that time and the administration of the building was passed to a local management committee in 1996. [13] The bell, which had become damaged over time, was moved to the foyer of the town hall in 2000 ...
New York City Hall, the oldest continuous seat of local government in the United States, completed in 1812 [2] In local government, a city hall, town hall, civic centre (in the UK or Australia), guildhall, or municipal building (in the Philippines) is the chief administrative building of a city, [3] town, or other municipality.
New Galloway Town Hall stands on the east side of the High Street, at a crossroads with East Port. It is a two-storey, five- bay building, with a square tower at its north end. [ 1 ] The tower has clock faces near the top, and a steep pyramid spire, with louvered lucarnes , and ball finials on each corner and the peak.
A German bomb crashed through the town hall roof and fell through several floors to the basement without exploding on the night of 19/20 November 1940 during the Blitz. [8] The town hall was the headquarters of the county borough of Leicester until 1974 when, following local government reform, it became the meeting place of Leicester City ...
In June 2019, the town hall was closed by the city council after the masonry and plasterwork were found to be in poor condition. [16] The city council put the building on the market for lease in February 2020, [ 17 ] and, following a competitive process, it agreed to enter into exclusive talks with a local community organisation known as ...
Until the late 19th century Alloa lacked a public hall capable of accommodating a large number of people, [2] so when a director of John Paton Son and Co., John Thomson Paton, offered to pay for a town hall as a gift to the town, [3] burgh leaders agreed to accept the offer: the site they selected was occupied by some large private houses.
Detail of the arcading on the ground floor of the corn exchange. A market place was established in the old town under a charter awarded by Henry VIII in 1539. [2] By the early 19th century the market hall took the form of a long range of corn lofts, which stood on pillars, so that markets could be held underneath. [3]