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The first municipal building in the town was an ancient guildhall located to the "southwest of the chapel" i.e. to the southwest of St Anne's Church. It was in the old guildhall that rioters broke into the building to prevent the appointment of the bailiff in 1708. By the early 19th century, the
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in 1866. In the 20th century, offices for council officers and their departments were established at
Borough House, further to the northeast along Load Street. The butchers' shambles, just behind the guildhall, was converted for heritage use and was officially opened by
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The borough council went on to commission a new guildhall: the site they chose had been occupied by the house of a local grocer, Thomas
Wootton, who also owned a series of storerooms behind his house. These storerooms were demolished to make way for a butchers'
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September 2018. In February 2021, Wyre Forest District Council announced its intention to seek trustees to take over the management of the guildhall, among other local assets, as part of its localisation agenda.
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The building continued to serve as the headquarters of
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stone and was completed in 1808. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with three bays facing onto Load Street. The ground floor was
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also visited the guildhall that month and unveiled a plaque to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the granting of a charter to the town by
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in 1802, shortly before the house was demolished to make way for the new guildhall. The new guildhall was designed by John
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in 1974. Instead it became the meeting place of
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ancient guildhall was in a dilapidated state and the borough council ordered its demolition.
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