Best Town Hall

[crazymanc1]

This poll should be scrapped and a new one made where you cant vote for your home city, i voted for manc because im biased and i do think its the best. but id vote either glasgow or leeds if not manc, cant a mod scrap the poll and make a new one?

[Jinkies!]

Originally Posted by Bachy Soletanche

I do Like Manchesters one, but I can't vote for the same thing as Irwell out of principal, and especially as it cost too much.

It does baffle me however that people are so wilfully misconstruing what Irwell is saying as a simple nouveau riche, cost = value philistinism. Clearly he's saying that the cost is indicative of the quality of material/finish/detail, which would be a fairly loose hook to hang a whole argument on, but seems perfectly reasonable in context as a piece of supporting evidence.

All that said, the real pleasure of this thread is not the usual big cities cock-waving and scrambling for the few spilt morsels from London's trough; it's the smaller, more idiosyncratic civic buildings, Barnsley and Warrington in particular getting special mention from me. Thanks to blahblah and Madchester Guy for posting them.

[crusty_bint]

The Banqueting Hall (not a lot of pics on net... will nip in for the tour this week at some point)

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[crusty_bint]

Other rooms chambers and halls

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[crusty_bint]

Originally Posted by Jinkies!

All that said, the real pleasure of this thread is not the usual big cities cock-waving and scrambling for the few spilt morsels from London's trough; it's the smaller, more idiosyncratic civic buildings, Barnsley and Warrington in particular getting special mention from me. Thanks to blahblah and Madchester Guy for posting them.

Totally agree with that - I am amazed at the sheer variance in style and scale of town halls throughout the UK and am finding it really difficult to make a decision.

Lets see some more!

[van heckler]

1867, French Renaissance.

LoveCharlie

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[wiggleyleeds]

As said before, I really dont think you can have a "best"

- they are all lovely in their own way, and it just depends what styles appeal to you more. There are also so many other factors that can be equally important, such as setting. The sheffield one, and the glasgow one seems to have really good settings, whereas the manchester one doesnt for example.

That said, the brum one and the liverpool ones are both a little too small to have the grandeur feel that a town hall would usually have, however that is more so to do with the fact that they have other big civic buildings that were constructed instead that already provided a grand civic feel to them.

[Bachy Soletanche]

Widnes old Town Hall:



Paisley:

[crusty_bint]

thats true wiggles, but Glasgow as has the City Chambers, the Town Hall, the City Halls, the Lower Municipal Buildings (precursor of the Chambers, what we know as the former Sheriff Court) and the Tolbooth (steeple), the Tontine Rooms and each burgh within the city has its own Burghal or Town hall which all served seperate and distinct municipal functions even after the Chambers were built so the point about Brum and Liverpool is sort of moot but I get what you're saying and so I suppose it was a point worth expressing at least

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[Bachy Soletanche]

So is this effectively the Liverpool Council House/Town Hall?

[crusty_bint]

Was there never any plans to have a new town hall for Liverpool beside the three graces?

[wiggleyleeds]

What about nottingham's town hall thing on market square... that building, with its setting wins this poll easily for me. who would have thought it ey


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[wiggleyleeds]

it puts leeds, brum, manchester, and liverpool's "town hall and setting" to shame

[Madchester Guy]

Originally Posted by Bachy Soletanche

Any good moderist or even deco/30's ones out there?

Newcastle Civic Centre is still quite new, it was built in 1967. Not really fond of it though.

[oscar9]

[QUOTE=crusty_bint;21313191]It is kind of telling that 9 of Mancs 13 votes are from Mancs - and two of those votes were made before the second post on the thread even had!


So,100 % of the vote for Brum town hall is from Brum forumers so far,always the case with polls like this

[crusty_bint]

Newcastle reminds me of Hamilton/S Lanarkshire

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[Bachy Soletanche]

Originally Posted by wiggleyleeds

it puts leeds, brum, manchester, and liverpool's "town hall and setting" to shame

Nothing wrong with Victoria Square, Exchange Flags or whatever it is in front of Manchester Town Hall.







You're right about Leeds though...



There's no space around it to err.. 'appreciate it'.

[Leeds No.1]

The council applied for funding to redevelop the area infront of the town hall and Victoria Gardens as a new public space for the city, similar to Exchange Square in Manchester. It didn't get the funding though so is on hold, but I expect the renovation of this space will come some time or other, allowing the buildings around it to be appreciated.

[DaiB]

Cardiff City Hall is beautiful, but technically the city is run from this place these days:



I voted for Glasgow. Phenomenal building.

[Irwell]

The sheer variety in this country is insane. Glasgow's, like a giant stately home. Hamilton's, like a giant tax office. Manchester's, like a cathedral or a castle depending on where you look. It's incredible really.

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