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Ealing Town Hall is a municipal building in New Broadway, Ealing, London, England. It is a Grade II listed building. [1] History. The building was commissioned to ...
Ealing Town Hall, Uxbridge Road, Ealing: Government ... Ealing Gazette; Ealing.news This page was last edited on 7 December 2024, at 10:24 (UTC). Text is ...
However, with a decade, the building was considered too small for municipal use and a new town hall, also designed by Charles Jones, was completed on New Broadway in 1888. [10] The local board decided to dispose of the old town hall which was converted for use as a bank. It became the local branch of London and County Bank in 1889.
Ealing Town Hall was built in 1886, replacing an earlier hall on the same site. The architect was Charles Jones , who also designed several other buildings and features in the borough. The borough was greatly enlarged in 1926 when it absorbed the urban districts of Greenford (including the parishes of Perivale and West Twyford ) and Hanwell . [ 2 ]
A year ago, the UK's first urban beavers were introduced to their new home in Greenford in west London. They live in Paradise Fields right next to a retail park.
The hall's origins and early history are recorded in Jones' 1904 book Ealing: From Village to Corporate Town. He noted that following the start of building a new Town Hall for the Council: "One great desideratum for a growing district like Ealing, viz a public assembly room, was wanting...The happy thought occurred to me that a permanent ...
Perceval House, 14-16 Uxbridge Road, Ealing, London, W5 2HL: Council's main offices since 1983. The council's main offices are at Perceval House (initially called the Civic Centre), which was completed in 1983 on a site immediately west of the Town Hall. [21] [22]
Ealing (/ ˈ iː l ɪ ŋ /) is a district in west London, England, 7.5 miles (12.1 km) west of Charing Cross in the London Borough of Ealing. [2] It is the administrative centre of the borough and is identified as a major metropolitan centre in the London Plan.