Wetherby, Market Place 1909
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The Town Hall was built on the site of the old chapel-of-ease. Its foundation stone was laid on 11th June 1845 and the cost of the building was £1,300. Little here has changed today, except that the Town Hall chimneys have been shortened. In between those on the right-hand side was a bell to summon the Fire Brigade. The magistrates court was held in the Town Hall from its opening in 1845 up to 1982. Prisoners were led to the upper court room through a discreet side door. A day school was held in the lower rooms. The playground was the street, with the girls allowed on the south side, the boys on the north side near the Black Bull. The building just behind the animated young boy was the Conservative Club, built on the site of the Devonshire Arms, named after the Duke who owned the town until the great sale of 1824.
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