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Letchworth Town Hall

Letchworth Town Hall is a municipal building in Broadway, Letchworth, Hertfordshire, England. The town hall, which was the headquarters of Letchworth Urban District Council, is a Grade II listed building. History Letchworth was developed in the early 20th century based on the ideas of the social reformer, Ebenezer Howard, and the master-planners, Richard Barry Parker and Raymond Unwin, around a boulevard known as Broadway, which formed the diagonal southwest-northeast axis of the proposed garden city. After significant population growth, in part associated with arrival of the Spirella Corset Company in the town, the area became an urban district in 1919. In this context civic leaders decided to procure a town hall: the site they selected was open land on the east side of Broadway. At the same time they established Broadway Gardens, which was initially known as the Town Square. The new building was designed by Robert Bennett and Wilson Bidwell in the Neo-Georgian style, built in red brick with stone dressings and completed in 1935. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with eleven bays facing the northeast corner of the Town Square with the wing sections slightly projected forward; the central section of five bays, featured a doorway with a fanlight flanked by Corinthian order pilasters supporting an open pediment on with a cartouche in the tympanum. The wing sections featured prominent round headed windows with cast iron balconies on the first floor. There were sash windows on the first and second floors and, at roof level, there was a clock tower with a cupola and a weather vane. Internally, the principal room was the council chamber, which was panelled, on the second floor. An electro-mechanical clock was installed in the tower to commemorate the life of Councillor Charles Francis Ball, who had died in June 1933, and in whose memory the Ball Memorial Gardens were also established to the east of Norton Way South in 1936. The building was initially called the "Council House", but was renamed the "Town Hall" in 1960. The building continued to serve as the headquarters of Letchworth Urban District Council until 1974 when that council was abolished on the formation of North Hertfordshire District Council, which, shortly after its creation, established its headquarters in a new office building nearby on Gernon Road. Letchworth Town Hall continued to be used as additional office space for the new council until 2007, when it fell vacant. After an extensive programme of restoration works to a design by Scott Brownrigg, the building was re-opened as an administrative centre for North Hertfordshire College in 2013. The clock in the clock tower, which by then had become one of the few remaining electro-mechanical clocks not to be replaced by an electrically motorised device, was restored in summer 2017. References
Golden Ball, York

The Golden Ball is a pub in the Bishophill area of central York, in England. The first record of the pub was in 1773. The core part of the building was constructed in the early 19th century. In 1883, a house for the publican was constructed by Benson & Minks, adjoining the pub. The pub was sold to Braime's Brewery in 1884, and this in 1902 was taken over by John Smith's Brewery. In 1929, the pub was constructed by their architect Bertram Wilson. He combined the two buildings, raised the ceiling height in the older part of the building, and decorated the front of the pub. In the 1990s, an additional room was added to the pub, from what was formerly a private area. The pub has otherwise been little altered since the 1920s, and is described by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) as "the most complete surviving inter-war scheme by John Smith's". In 2010, the pub was grade II listed on the initiative of CAMRA, and it appears on that organisation's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors. In 2012, the pub was taken over by a co-operative of local residents. Since then, it has held beer festivals, an annual summer fete, and sells works by local artists. It also hosts local music nights. The pub has two storeys and a cellar. The whole building is constructed of brick, but the older part, on the corner of Victor Street, has tiling at the ground floor level, and is rendered at the first floor. Its entrance is on Cromwell Road, opening onto a corridor, with the former smoke bar on the left, and the public bar on the right. Historic England notes that it has the only known surviving example of a "bar-side seating alcove", known as a "hall". There is a now-disused doorway for take-away sales, signed "Jug & Bottle Dept". The ground floor windows on Victor Street incorporate etched glass, advertising John Smiths and Magnet Ales. Many internal fittings survive from the 1929 redesign, including doors, tiling, flooring, and the bar. References External links Official website
Ilkley Lido

Ilkley Lido is an open-air swimming pool in the West Yorkshire, England, spa town of Ilkley, part of a complex that also includes an indoor heated swimming pool, tennis courts and a cafe. It was designed by Archibald Skinner and opened in May 1935 as part of the celebrations for the Silver Jubilee of George V. The lido is open from May to September and during the summer can attract up to 4,000 visitors a day. Ilkley Lido is designated Grade II listed status. Description The large pool is mushroom shaped with a shallow area for children, including slide, and deeper circular area 46 m in diameter. There is also a 'rare example of a still unscreened fountain' which was part of the original filtration system. The pool's Art Deco café built in August 1935 to cater for 100 people remains unchanged externally with glazed concertina doors and raised sun terrace that reflect the 1930s enthusiasm for outdoor leisure. On each side of the pool are single-storey changing room blocks built in a timber-framed vernacular style, originally designated for ladies to the east and gentlemen to the west. The site also includes an extensive picnic area, tennis courts, putting green, bowls and a 25mx11m heated indoor pool with spectator area. History Designed by Archie Skinner, Ilkley's surveyor and water engineer, building work started in 1934, and the lido was officially opened in May 1935 as part of the Silver Jubilee celebrations of King George V. Opening events to commemorate the jubilee included `ladies and gents graceful high dive' and `ladies neatest and smartest modern bathing costume'. The Art Deco café to the north of the pool opened in August 1935 seating 100 people with catering provided by Taylors of Harrogate. In 1957 the artist Frank Sherwin was commissioned by British Railways to create a poster to promote Ilkley as a holiday destination with the tagline 'Ilkley – Gateway to the Yorkshire Dales'. In 1974 an indoor pool was added while the steel diving stage was dismantled following the Health and Safety at Work Act of 1974. The lido has hosted the Ilkley Triathlon since the early 1990s, making it one of the longest-running sprint events in the country. Previous winners of the event include Olympic champions Alistair and Jonny Brownlee in 2004 and 2005 respectively. See also Listed buildings in Ilkley References
Old Police Station, Bath

The Old Police Station is a Grade II listed building in Bath, Somerset, England. Completed in 1865, to a design by Charles Edward Davis, it stands in Orange Grove, adjacent (to the southwest) to Bath's Empire Hotel, although it pre-dates that building by around fifty years. The police station opened on 19 January 1866. A 19th-century archway connecting the building to the rear of the adjacent (to the southwest) Guildhall, in which the police station was formerly located, is also listed. The building, which contains a garage for one fire engine, is two storeys high and three bays wide. It became disused when the police station moved to Manvers Street in the 1970s. It became a restaurant in 1998. Today, the building is the home of Browns Bar & Brasserie. References
Hitchin Town Hall

Hitchin Town Hall is a municipal structure in Brand Street, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England. The town hall, which was the headquarters of Hitchin Urban District Council, is a Grade II listed building. History The first town hall in Hitchin was a building designed by Thomas Bellamy in the Italianate style, which was erected on the south side of Pound Street, now known as Brand Street, in 1840. After population growth in the 19th century, partly associated with the straw plaiting and lavender growing industries, Hitchin was made a local government district in 1873, governed by an elected local board. Such districts were reconstituted as urban districts under the Local Government Act 1894. In this context, the new civic leaders decided that the existing town hall was inadequate and that they would procure a new structure: the site chosen, on the opposite side of Brand Street, was occupied by William Jelly's tin plate workshop. The cost of the land acquisition was paid for by five wealthy dignitaries from the local area. The new building was designed by Edward Mountford and Thomas Lucas in the Neo-Georgian style, built in red brick with stone dressings by Fosters at a cost of £7,300 and officially opened on 18 March 1901 by Lucy Hudson, wife of the local member of parliament, George Hudson. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with seven bays facing onto the Brand Street; the central bay, which slightly projected forward, featured an arched doorway with a large keystone on the ground floor and mullioned windows on the first floor flanked by full-height pilasters supporting a modillioned pediment with the town's coat of arms in the tympanum. The pilasters were carved at the top with the letters "HUDC" (for Hitchin Urban District Council) and "AD MCM" (AD 1900). A cupola was erected at roof level. Internally, the principal rooms are the main assembly hall, now known as the Mountford Hall, and a reception room known as the Lucas Room. The suffragette, Emmeline Pankhurst, visited the town hall and made a speech supporting women's suffrage in March 1907, while performers hosting concerts included the Jamaican reggae band Bob Marley and the Wailers in May 1973. The building continued to serve as the headquarters of Hitchin Urban District Council for much of the 20th century but ceased to be the local seat of government when the enlarged North Hertfordshire District Council was formed in Letchworth in 1974. The town hall was closed in October 2012 to allow a major programme of works to be undertaken at a cost of £6 million: the works involved an extension to the southeast, with a glass and steel frontage, to create the North Hertfordshire Museum. The financing included £850,000 from Communitybuilders and £950,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund, with the balance coming from council funds. The museum, which brought together collections from both the former Hitchin Museum and Art Gallery and the former Letchworth Museum & Art Gallery, opened in July 2019. Notes References
The Old Green Tree

The Old Green Tree is a public house on Green Street in Bath, Somerset, England. Grade II listed, the building dates to the 1716, and was extended to the rear in 1926. A beam across the ceiling in the main bar denotes the original back wall of the original building. It was refurbished by local architect W. A. Williams. In June 1716, milliner John Cornish purchased part of a former bowling green in his construction of Green Street. The interior doors each bear numbers which were used to identify the rooms for licensing purposes: the lounge is "1", the front bar is "2", the smoke room is "3" and the cellar door is "4". The pub was a free house until 1928, when Lamb Brewery became the landlord. The pub's Green Tree Bitter is brewed locally by Blindman's Brewery. The leasehold and freehold owner is Wellington. The pub was named UK City Pub of the Year by The Good Pub Guide in 2005 and 2008. The Daily Telegraph named it Somerset's Pub of the Year for 2024. Tim Bethune took over the lease in 2014. References
St George's Church, Wilton

St George's Church is the parish church of Wilton, a village near Pickering, North Yorkshire, in England. A church was built in Wilton in the 13th century, but it appears to have been largely rebuilt in the 17th century, with only the south arcade surviving from the original building. It was demolished and a new church built by Charles Hodgson Fowler between 1907 and 1922, the work incorporating the south arcade. A tower was planned but never constructed. The building was grade II listed in 2011. The church is built of stone with dressings in sandstone and limestone, and has a Westmorland slate roof. The church consists of a nave, north and south aisles, and a chancel; each aisle has two gabled bays. The west end is built of brick, and has tower footings and a half-timbered porch, both with slate roofs, and above is a projecting wooden bell turret. Inside, there is a Norman tub font, 13th- and 14th-century bells, and panelling made of 17th-century pew ends. See also Listed buildings in Wilton, Ryedale References
Brunel University lecture centre

The Brunel University lecture centre is a Grade II listed building on the campus of Brunel University of London, Uxbridge. It contains six large lecture halls with capacities of 160 to 200 people each, as well as smaller teaching rooms and lecture halls with capacities of 60 to 80. It was built in the mid-1960s in a brutalist style, using mostly reinforced concrete, as part of the expansion of Brunel College into Brunel University, and was designated as a Grade II listed building in 2011. It was used to depict the Ludovico Medical Facility in the 1971 Stanley Kubrick film A Clockwork Orange. History In the post-war period, Brunel University (then Acton Technical College) shifted its focus from training teenagers and apprentices to teaching higher education, especially to ex-servicemen. It gained a positive reputation for its engineering and science courses, and by the end of 1960 the college (now called Brunel College) was aiming to become a college of advanced technology (CAT), which it achieved in January 1962. After the upgrade of Brunel College to a CAT, the Robbins Report proposed upgrading the college to full university status, with a new campus planned to be one of the largest engineering teaching campuses in Europe. The first phase of the new campus included a lecture centre with all lecture halls placed in one building, inspired by a building at the University of Manchester which members of the Brunel Planning Group visited in 1962. The lecture centre was finished in 1966 or 1967, and was a flagship in the group of "Robbins universities" – universities which were being upgraded as part of the Robbins Report. On 23 June 2011, the lecture centre was designated as a Grade II listed building by Historic England. The reasons included its "distinctive, expressive manner" of construction, the high quality of materials used, and its place in the historic importance of Brunel University as a fast-growing technical college post-WWII. Description The lecture centre is a brutalist building made with reinforced concrete. It contains six large lecture halls with capacities of 160 to 200 people each, as well as smaller teaching rooms and lecture halls with capacities of 60 to 80 people, which are located in long corridors across three floors. The box-shaped lecture halls extrude from the building, resting on large columns and beams and separated by emergency exits. The building has been described as "imposing" and "a brutalist classic", with the expansion of the building as it rises creating "a frightening and effortlessly balanced form". In the official Historic England list entry, the extruding lecture halls were called "strongly expressed" and the north face of the building described as "an expressive centrepiece to the campus." In popular culture The lecture centre was used to depict the Ludovico Medical Facility in the 1971 film A Clockwork Orange. It has also been used for filming projects such as Silent Witness and Inspector Morse. References
Dukinfield Town Hall

Dukinfield Town Hall is a municipal building in King Street, Dukinfield, Greater Manchester, England. The town hall, which was the headquarters of Dukinfield Borough Council, is a grade II listed building. History Shortly after it had been created in 1857, the local board of health established itself in some offices on the east side of King Street in an area designated the Market Place. Population growth associated with the increasing number of local cotton mills led to the area becoming an urban district in 1894 and a municipal borough in 1899. In this context civic leaders decided to demolish the existing offices and to erect a town hall slightly further back from where they had been. The foundation stone for the new building was laid by Mrs Gertrude Susan Nicholson of Dukinfield Lodge and of Arisaig on 23 September 1899. It was designed by John Eaton, Sons and Cantrell in the Gothic style, built by John Robinson of Ashton-under-Lyne and officially opened by the mayor, Alderman James Pickup, on 15 June 1901. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with nine bays facing onto King Street with the end bays slightly projected forward as pavilions with oriel windows on the first floor and gables above; the central bay featured an arched doorway on the ground floor, a carved frieze, a balcony and a triple window on the first floor, with the borough coat of arms, a wide segmental arch and a clock tower with a steep spire above. The clock was designed by J. B. Joyce & Co of Whitchurch and the bells were cast by John Taylor & Co of Loughborough. Internally, the principal rooms were the council chamber, the lesser hall and mayor's parlour. The building was extended to the rear to create the main assembly hall, subsequently renamed the Jubilee Hall, in 1936. The building continued to serve as the headquarters of Dukinfield Borough Council but ceased to be the local seat of government when the enlarged Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council was formed in 1974. A blue plaque was fixed to the building to commemorate the life of the local composer, John Golland, who specialised in music for brass bands, in April 1997 and the council chamber was renamed the George Hatton Room, following the death, in 2004, of Councillor George Hatton, who had served as mayor of Tameside in the early 1980s. After an extensive programme of refurbishment works costing £3 million had been completed in January 2005, the building re-opened as the main registry office for Tameside. A statue designed and made by Escar UK Bronze depicting the local soldier, Lieutenant Colonel Robert Duckenfield, who commanded Parliamentarian forces during the English Civil War, was unveiled outside the building in April 2010. A blue plaque was also fixed to the building to commemorate his life. See also Listed buildings in Dukinfield References
St Peter's Church, Sawrey

St Peter's Church is a parish church in Sawrey, Cumbria; it is located in Far Sawrey. It is dedicated to St Peter. The church is in the Archdeaconry of Westmorland and Furness, in the Diocese of Carlisle. The church is of 19th-century origin and is Grade II listed. History The church was completed in 1869, to a design by a London-based architect, Robert Brass. It is the only church designed by Brass, who shortly afterwards ceased practice as an architect. It is built from local slate and sandstone, in an Early English style with chancel, transepts and a three-stage tower at the north-east. Features The stained-glass windows are by the following firms: East window by Cox & Son depicting Christ the Good Shepherd. Transept end windows by R.B. Edmundson & Son. West window in the north transept by Wailes and Strang. South wall of nave depicting St Miriam playing the timbrel and St Cecilia playing the organ. The organ is by Gray & Davison, dating from 1875. In 2015 an undated chamber organ was on loan to the church and located in the north transept; it had arrived in the church from Cark Methodist Church after it closed in 2005. There are two bells: one dating from 1883 by John Warner & Sons and the other from 1868 by Naylor, Vickers & Co. Only the Warner bell is in use. Churchyard There is one WWI war grave in the churchyard. Two further war graves (in France) are commemorated on gravestones in the churchyard. Other burials include: Flt Lt Johnnie Johnson DFC, one of the Dambusters airmen. The Revd Alexander MacLeod Murray, chaplain to the Bela Camp for German and Italian POWs. Parish The area of the parish was originally part of the parish of Hawkshead; it became a separate parish in 1873. In 1982 it became part of a united benefice with Hawkshead, and in turn in 2003 the parishes of Rusland and Satterthwaite joined the united benefice. There is a weekly service (2024). See also Listed buildings in Claife References
St Margaret Clitherow's Church, Threshfield

St Margaret Clitherow's Church is a Catholic church in Threshfield, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. In the 1960s, the Catholic population around Grassington grew, and it was decided to construct a church in the neighbouring village of Threshfield. A design was drawn up by Jack Langtry-Langton, but it was rejected by the diocese, and the architect was reluctant to make the changes the diocese wanted. Instead, Jack's son, Peter Langtry-Langton, drew up a new design, inspired by a drawing he had seen of a church in Africa, constructed of branches and palm leaves. The church was constructed between 1972 and 1973, and was grade II listed in 2012. The church is built of limestone with zinc-clad concrete beams and a roof of stone slates. The plan is of two intersecting squares, with four beams forming flying buttresses. Three of the sides have triangular projections, and the fourth has a meeting room. On one of the faces is a large lead Celtic cross with figurative carving, which was designed by John Ashworth and John Loker. Inside, there are semicircular wooden pews, with a folding partition screen behind. There are two large stained glass windows, designed by Jane Duff. See also Listed buildings in Threshfield References
Puente de Silver Street

El puente de Silver Street (nombre original en inglés: Silver Street Bridge), oficialmente conocido como Small Bridge ("puente pequeño"),​ es el sexto puente del río Cam en su conjunto y el segundo puente en su curso medio, a su paso por Cambridge.​ En 1959, el actual puente de hormigón, diseñado por Sir Edwin Lutyens, reemplazó a un antiguo puente de fundición de hierro que había sido construido en 1841.​​ Imágenes Referencias Enlaces externos Wikimedia Commons alberga una categoría multimedia sobre Puente de Silver Street.