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Sandgate Town Hall was designed to sit on a prominent corner, and was therefore an L-shaped building with wings extending along both streets; the hall in the Brighton Road wing was accessed from the principal corner entrance and Council Chambers and various offices were accessed from a centrally
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Municipal Council meetings from 1880 until 1882 were held in a large room rented in a masonry building, thought to be the oldest building in Sandgate. The first official Sandgate Municipal Chambers and Town Hall was designed by
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Sandgate Town Hall was constructed in 1911–1912 when the previous chambers were destroyed by fire on 24 May 1910. The architect of the hall, which cost £5000, was Thomas Ramsay Hall, and the contractor John Gemmell.
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and a health clinic. The main hall is currently used for public meetings and other community gatherings the council library operates from the former
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The town hall has square-arched openings to the
Brighton Street wing and round arched openings to the other. The principal entrance, at the corner of the site is defined by two massive
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The building is a landmark on a prominent site in
Sandgate, of particular note for its unusual clocktower, and as an integral element of the precinct including the Post Office and
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watchmaker, Frederick John Bright, was installed in the clocktower in 1923. The clock is reputedly one of the oldest working clocks in
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Queensland Governor, William MacGregor, at a ceremony attended by 500 people. A four dial clock, acquired from the
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In 1925, under the requirements of the City of Brisbane Act of 1924, the Town of Sandgate merged with 19 other local government areas to form the
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at the rear of the dress circle by a fixed timber ladder leading to three levels containing various clock workings, weights and bells.
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Sandgate Town Hall, erected in 1911–1912, is significant as an excellent example of a Federation style civic building in Queensland.
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library – chamber/room, hall, views from, furniture/fittings, dress circle, office/s, stage/sound shell, tower – clock, views to
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near the principal corner entrance, with room allocated for the clock on the second level and a bell on the third.
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in 1882, and built in Kate Street near the popular pier and bathing area in what is now
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