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at a cost of around £20,000 and was officially opened on 19 July 1905. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with five bays facing onto Earle Street with the end bays slightly projected forward with balconies on the first floor and topped with pediments containing
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flanked by round headed windows; above these openings there were featured carvings of reclining figures sculpted by
Frederick Schenck. There was a row of sash windows on the first floor; each of the bays in the central section was flanked by full-height
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in 1877. In this context, civic leaders decided to procure municipal buildings: the site chosen on the north side of Earle Street had been occupied by a row of commercial properties with an old corn exchange located behind them.
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Pevsner described the building as being "too small to achieve its full effect". Nevertheless, it was one of the few older buildings in the town which survived the redevelopment purges of the 20th century.
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The building continued to serve as the headquarters of the borough council for much of the 20th century. When local government was reformed in 1974, the building became the meeting place of the new
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was selected as the preferred architect. The foundation stone for the new building was laid by the mayor, James Henry Moore, on 3 September 1903. It was designed in the
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