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116: 31: 221: 160: 123: 201:, was completed in 1876. The design involved an asymmetrical main frontage of twenty bays facing Bickerstaffe Street; the central section of five bays featured a flight of steps leading up to a double-height stone portico with piers on the ground floor supporting paired Corinthian order columns on the first floor and an arch with a 263:
also visited the town and appended their signatures to a commemorative memorandum to record their visit on 18 May 1938. A plaque was installed in the town hall to commemorate the contribution of the miners who were affected by the closure of Ravenhead Colliery, which had been the last functioning
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in Manchester, conducted his first public performance in the assembly hall in October 1899. The steeple on the clock tower was destroyed in a fire which took place on 9 June 1913, shortly before a visit by
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coal mine located close to the town centre, on 18 October 1968. The town hall was a venue for a sit-in, although there were not enough chairs to sit on, over a pay dispute, on 22 October 1970.
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of St Helens on 2 February 1868 but, after the first town hall was badly damaged in a fire in 1871, civic leaders decided to procure a new town hall on the same site.
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columns on the first floor, was completed in 1839. It contained a large assembly hall for holding "courts, concerts, balls, and public meetings" as well as a
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above. There was a clock tower on the left of the central section with a steeple. Internally the main rooms were an assembly hall, which had a
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The town hall continued serve as the headquarters of the county borough of St Helens and became the local seat of government of the
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for holding prisoners. The town hall became the headquarters of the new
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A drawing depicting the first town hall in St Helens
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Municipal building in St Helens, Merseyside, England
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Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870–1872)
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St Helens, Merseyside
53°27′15″N 2°44′07″W / 53.4543°N 2.7353°W / 53.4543; -2.7353
Victorian style
St Helens Town Hall is located in Merseyside
St Helens, Merseyside
St Helens Council

Italianate style
hexastyle
portico
piers
Corinthian order
lock up
municipal borough
Victorian style
pediment
proscenium arch
St Helena
coat of arms

county borough
Sir Thomas Beecham
Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
the Hallé
King George V
Queen Mary
King George VI
Queen Elizabeth
Metropolitan Borough of St Helens

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