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The Old Town Hall, also known as The Locarno or Locarno Ballroom, [1] is a former municipal building of 1854 in the High Street, Swindon, Wiltshire, England. It is a Grade II listed building . [ 2 ]
By 1890, the New Swindon Local Board had plans to build their new public offices in what is now Regent Circus. [2] This location, halfway between the new Railway Village and the Old Town, was thought by some to be "both psychologically and strategically an excellent position for the new town to establish a landmark building". [3]
The Old Swindon Local Board met for the first time on 10 August 1865 at the Town Hall, Old Swindon, with a grocer, Phillip Hawe Mason, as chairman. In 1889, Wiltshire County Council had been formed to take responsibility for several strategic local government services in the whole of Wiltshire .
Swindon's Town Hall, now used as a dance school, was built by the GWR to replace the old Town Hall located in Old Swindon. A map of Swindon, 1945. Swindon received its first purpose-built Maternity Hospital in 1931, now Kingshill House, located along Bath Road. [2]
Christ Church is a Grade II* listed church in Cricklade Street, Swindon, Wiltshire, England. It was built in 1851 to a design by George Gilbert Scott. [1] Christ Church, 1885. The church is one of two major buildings in Old Town, the other being the old town hall, a few minutes walk away.
For much of the 19th century, petty session hearings in Swindon were held in the Goddard Arms on the High Street, then, after it opened in the mid-1850s, in the Old Town Hall, [1] and then, after it opened in 1891, in the New Town Hall. [2]
The team used a combination of traditional and modern techniques to establish the site of the king’s palace, which appears twice in the artwork — once when Harold is feasting in an extravagant ...
Grade II listed buildings in the English county of Wiltshire, including the Borough of Swindon. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.