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Description: | View shows the Market Square from the top of Amery Street. On the left is the Town Hall, in the centre at the far end of the Square is the Wheatsheaf, while on the right can be seen part of the frontage of the Market Hotel. The Town Hall and the Square were refurbished in 1988. The Town Hall was erected in 1812 and enlarged in 1840 and was used as a corn exchange, a drill hall, a school the Fire Station and a place for public meetings, lectures, dances and entertainments. The building was purchased by the Council in 1910 and the upper floor was the library until 1969. Now the Town Council occupies the top of the building with shops on the ground floor. Until 1878 the Market Hotel was known as the Butchers Arms. The crane in the background is on the site of Cross and Pillory House which was opened in 1983. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Rights holder: | Margaret Smith | Subjects: | shop Wheatsheaf building Market Hotel street town hall Market Square hotel pub | Temporal: | start=1983-01-01; end=1983-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Margaret Smith | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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