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Loftus, Town Hall c.1955
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The distinctive town hall of Loftus was built by Lord Zetland in 1879 and described as 'Free-Neo-Tudor' with a polygon angled tower. It was designed by the architect E R Robson of London, who also designed the nearby Lodge of Loftus Hall. A peculiarity of Loftus town hall is that there is no south-facing clock face, because funds were low and this face was mostly out of sight, so expense was saved by only buying three faces! In its time the hall has been used as a reading room and library. It was used as a magistrates court, council offices and for board meetings and entertainments. During the rebuilding of the parish church, seen to the right, services were held there.

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A Selection of Memories from Loftus

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Loftus

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The Window Cleaner
I remember watching the window cleaner pushing his cart up the High Street doing the shop windows. If I remember correctly his name was Arthur Hill and he lived up East Crescent.
Loftus, the Window Cleaner, Westfield Terrace c1960
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Added 08 June 2020

Loftus Was Once A Lovely Market Town
Loftus in Cleveland I remember Slater's Banks, Primroses Violets, Cowslips rolling our paste eggs at Easter, Skylarks singing and Saturday Market shopping at the Co-op its butchers, shoe shop drapery offices grocery and furniture shops, we had it all not so very long ago but alas Loftus is not as it was. Take a look at the Loftus Town Crier website, we had really bad flooding on the 6th of Sept ...see more
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Springhead Terrace
I was born at number 11, and was told I did not open my eyes, so Mrs Tyreman baptized me. She had changed from Methodist to Catholic when she married her husband who was a tailor. When the priest came the next morning and blessed me I opened my eyes. I was given a spoonful of brandy to keep me alive, and was told I was talking by the age of two. I had two bouts of Double Pneumonia before the age of six, but was ...see more
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Added 28 August 2008

The Market Place
When I was at school I did the history of Loftus. The market place was used for the market stalls, I think that it should be like that again. Bring back the meaning of Loftus market place - if anyone agrees let people know. Even if the shops that we have bring their products out to the stalls we might get more people coming and put Loftus back on the map and not just known as a trouble town.
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