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Swadlincote Town Hall
Swadlincote Town Hall is a municipal building in The Delph in Swadlincote, a town in Derbyshire in England. The building, which serves a community events venue, is a Grade II listed building. History The building was commissioned as a market hall and was financed by public subscription in the mid-19th century. The site civic leaders selected was on the north side of the market square, known as The Delph, at the corner of the High Street and Midland Road. It was designed in the Italianate style, built in red brick at a cost of £1,179 and was completed in 1861. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage of three bays facing onto The Delph. The centre bay featured a portico which originally had a triangular pediment. On the first floor there was originally a brick arch which reached up into the gable above. The outer bays, which were fenestrated on the first floor by round headed latticed windows with archivolts, were flanked by pilasters supporting hood moulds. The side ele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swadlincote
Swadlincote is a historic mining town in the district of South Derbyshire, in the county of Derbyshire, England. It lies within The National Forest (England), The National Forest area. It borders the counties of Leicestershire and Staffordshire, southeast of Burton upon Trent and north-west of Ashby-de-la-Zouch and southwest of Derby. It covers the suburban areas of Church Gresley, Goseley, Midway, Newhall, Derbyshire, Newhall, Oversetts and Woodville, Derbyshire, Woodville and had a population of 34,576 at the 2021 census. History Swadlincote's name is derived from the Old English ', ' being a man's name and ' meaning cottages. Past forms of the name include Sivardingescote and Swartlincote.Lysons & Lysons, 1817, pp. 165–172. Local residents sometimes shorten its name to "Swad". The Domesday Book of 1086 recorded Swadlincote as a small Manorialism, manor. It was part of the parish of Gresley (latterly Church Gresley) until the 19th century.Lewis, 1848, pp. 280–283.Lewis, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kelly's Directory
Kelly's Directory (or more formally, the Kelly's, Post Office and Harrod & Co Directory) was a trade directory in Britain that listed all businesses and tradespeople in a particular city or town, as well as a general directory of postal addresses of local gentry, landowners, charities, and other facilities. In effect, it was a Victorian version of today's Yellow Pages. Many reference libraries still keep their copies of these directories, which are now an important source for historical research. Origins The eponymous originator of the directory was Frederic Festus Kelly. In 1835 or 1836 he became chief inspector of letter-carriers for the inland or general post office, and took over publication of the Post Office London Directory, whose copyright was in private hands despite its semi-official association with the post office, and which Kelly had to purchase from the widow of his predecessor. He founded Kelly & Co. and he and various family members gradually expanded the comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Government Buildings Completed In 1861
A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state. In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government is a means by which organizational policies are enforced, as well as a mechanism for determining policy. In many countries, the government has a kind of constitution, a statement of its governing principles and philosophy. While all types of organizations have governance, the term ''government'' is often used more specifically to refer to the approximately 200 independent national governments and subsidiary organizations. The main types of modern political systems recognized are democracies, totalitarian regimes, and, sitting between these two, authoritarian regimes with a variety of hybrid regimes. Modern classification systems also include monarchies as a standalone entity or as a hybrid system of the main three. Historically prevalent forms ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Listed Buildings In Swadlincote
Swadlincote is a town in the South Derbyshire district of Derbyshire, England. It contains 24 Listed building#England and Wales, listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, two are at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The list contains the listed buildings in the town, and also those in the village of Church Gresley, the Ward (electoral subdivision), wards of Midway, and Newhall and Stanton, and part of the ward of Woodville, Derbyshire, Woodville. The listed buildings include houses and associated structures, farmhouses, churches, former industrial buildings including bottle kilns, a town hall, a showroom and a school. __NOTOC__ Key Buildings References Citations Sources * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Swadlincote Lists of listed buildings in Derbyshire Swadlincote, L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
