Penrith, The Town Hall c.1950
Photo ref:
P33014

More about this scene
This building was remodelled from two elegant 18th- century Adam-style gentlemen's dwellings. On the left side lived Captain John Wordsworth, the poet Wordsworth's uncle. Its monumentalising face-lift in 1905-6 to provide municipal headquarters and premises for the town's first public library and museum courted controversy. A protest led by Canon Rawnsley, co- founder of the National Trust, succeeded in preserving several original features.
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