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unusual facts about Manchester Town Hall


Manchester Town Hall

The Town Hall, also located in King Street at the corner of Cross Street, was designed by Francis Goodwin and constructed during 1822–25, much of it by David Bellhouse.


Ford Madox Brown

Brown spent the latter years of his life painting The Manchester Murals for Manchester Town Hall which depicted Mancunian history.

Brown's major achievement after Work was "The Manchester Murals", a cycle of twelve paintings in the Great Hall of Manchester Town Hall depicting the history of the city.

Royal visits to Manchester and Salford during the reign of Queen Victoria

The Queen rode past the stately warehouses, like that of Messrs. Watt on Portland Street, the newly built Manchester Town Hall (1877), with the Albert Memorial, in Albert Square, Manchester's tribute to her late husband and finally the emerging commercial buildings epitomised in Lewis's Department store, all of which shaped the Manchester still visible to today’s citizens and visitors.

The Manchester Association of Engineers

In 2006 under the presidency of Dr Richard L. Hills the association celebrated its 150th Anniversary with a civic reception for the engineering community held at Manchester Town Hall.


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