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The town hall continued to serve as the borough headquarters for much of the 20th century and, from 1974, as the headquarters of the enlarged Merthyr Tydfil District Council. [9] After the courts relocated to the new Law Courts in Glebeland Place in 1977, [ 10 ] and after the council relocated to the new Merthyr Tydfil Civic Centre in the late ...
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Old Town Hall: Council's headquarters until 1989. Until 1989 the council was based at Merthyr Tydfil Town Hall, which had been built between 1896 and 1898 for the old urban district council. In 1989 a new civic centre was built on Castle Street, which opened as the council's headquarters at the start of January 1990. [16]
From 2011 to 2014, the town held a Merthyr Rock Festival at Cyfarthfa Park. [79] To complement this, the town holds the Merthyr Rising each year – a three-day celebration of town history through local music, held on the site of the Rising itself in Penderyn Square at the junction of Castle Street and High Street. [80]
Town is an electoral ward which elects four councillors to Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council. At the May 2017 elections Town elected three Independent councillors (John Thomas, Kevin O'Neill, Andrew Barry) topped the poll, with the fourth councillor from the Labour Party (Dai Jones). [ 3 ]
Shortly afterwards the new council commissioned the construction of Merthyr Tydfil Town Hall, which opened in 1898. [20] The Merthyr Tydfil Urban District was elevated to municipal borough status in 1905. [21] Administrative map of the County of Glamorgan in 1947, with an older Merthyr Tydfil County Borough boundary.