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The Council House, Coventry in Coventry, England, is a Tudor Revival style city hall building which is the home of Coventry City Council and the seat of local government. It was built in the early 20th century.
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The building was built in the medieval style between 1340 and 1342 and much altered and extended in 1460. [1]The guildhall originally served as the headquarters of the merchant guild of St Mary, [2] and subsequently of the united guilds of the Holy Trinity, St Mary, St John the Baptist and St Katherine, [3] which merged in 1392.
Drapers' Hall is a historic building (Grade II* listed) [1] in the Cathedral Quarter of Coventry built in 1832 by the Drapers' Company, a large trading guild in Coventry. [2] The present building is believed to the third guildhall on the site.
Notable examples of buildings which have not survived include the town halls of Kensington, Newcastle, Paddington and Sunderland. The oldest town hall, which was built as a chapel for pilgrims, is Dover Town Hall , thought to have been completed in around 1203, [ 2 ] while the oldest purpose-built town hall is Bury St Edmunds Guildhall , which ...
Music Hall, Britain's first form of commercial mass entertainment, emerged, broadly speaking, in the mid-19th century, and ended (arguably) after the First World War, when the halls rebranded their entertainment as Variety. [1]
In 1966, American R&B duo Ike & Tina Turner performed at the Locarno Ballroom in Coventry. [11]Several Locarnos were the siting of "Come Dancing" in the 1960s and 70s. The Coventry band The Specials refer to their local Locarno in their hit "Friday Night and Saturday Morning" (also covered by the French band Nouvelle Vague).
City/town Arena Date built Date closed Capacity Image Aberdeen: BHGE Arena: 1985 2019 8,500 [46]: London: Harringay Arena: 1936 1958 13,500 London Arena: 1989