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The Central Library and Focus Art Gallery are housed in the building. It was opened in September 2013 [1] following a relocation from the former building of Southend Central Library on Victoria Avenue which now houses the Beecroft Art Gallery. [2] Membership for the library is free. [3]
Coat of arms of Southend-on-Sea City Council Notes Originally granted to Southend-on-Sea County Borough Council on 1 & 2 January 1915. Transferred to Southend-on-Sea Borough Council on 21 May 1974. [25] Crest Issuant out of a mural crown Gules the mast of a ship proper flying therefrom a flag Argent charged with a cross throughout Gules. Escutcheon
Southend Civic Centre is a municipal building in Victoria Avenue, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England. The structure holds the chamber for Southend-on-Sea City Council and houses the council's offices. Originally the Civic Centre incorporated the whole development of municipal buildings located between Carnarvon Road and Southend Central Museum .
Southend is governed by Southend-on-Sea City Council, which is a unitary authority, performing the functions of both a county and district council. There is one civil parish within the city at Leigh-on-Sea , which has a Town Council that was established in 1996. [ 193 ]
Milton is an electoral ward of Southend-on-Sea, in the ceremonial county of Essex, England, covering the seafront area west of Southend town centre and the eastern side of the inner city area of Westcliff-on-Sea. It is represented by three local government councillors, each elected to serve a four-year term.
The building was designed as a library by the councils architect, Patrick Burrough, as part of the new Southend Civic Centre.The Civic Centre would encompass a new police station, the courthouse, council offices and chamber, a new College and a Library on a site first purchased by the council in 1919 for a further education college, but had been reallocated as a town hall site in 1934.
Southend-on-Sea City Council, formerly known as Southend-on-Sea Borough Council, is the local authority for the unitary authority of Southend-on-Sea in Essex, England. Until 1 April 1998 it was a non-metropolitan district .
The town was officially incorporated by charter as a municipal borough in 1892, and the council, known as Southend Corporation, changed the name of the town from Southend to Southend-on-Sea in 1893. Due to the rapid expansion of the town's population, in 1914 the town was made a county borough , divorcing itself from the county council and ...