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unusual facts about The Town Hall



1996–97 Barnsley F.C. season

The team lost their final game of the season 5-1 away at Oxford United; however the joy of promotion remained throughout the summer and the team later had an open-top bus celebration around the town, culminating at the town hall.

Amália Rodrigues

Its director, Bruno de Almeida, has also produced Amália, Live in New York City, a concert film of her 1990 performance at The Town Hall.

Carmen Carrozza

One of the high points in Mr. Carrozza's distinguished career was a concert in The Town Hall in New York City where he performed all original accordion works by many outstanding American composers including Robert Russell Bennett, Paul Creston, Virgil Thompson and many others.

Stevie Holland

Holland has toured nationally in the United States and performed in concert at Iridium Jazz Club, Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Town Hall, Merkin Concert Hall in New York City.


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155 mm Creusot Long Tom

Replicas of the original cannons can be seen at various places in South Africa, including Fort Klapperkop near Pretoria, in the Long Tom Pass in Mpumalanga, The Anglo-Boer War Museum in Bloemfontein (formerly the War Museum of the Boer Republics) and next to the town hall in Ladysmith.

2005 French riots

In other incidents, a police officer was injured while making an arrest after youths threw bottles of acid at the town hall in Pont-l'Évêque, and a junior high school in Grenoble was set on fire.

Anthracite League

On August 28, 1924, Gildea set up a meeting at the town hall in Coaldale to establish the league.

Antoine-Nicolas Bailly

His best-known work overall, although not the most admired, is the Tribunal de commerce de Paris (Commercial Court of Paris) on the Île de la Cité, completed in 1865, which Napoleon III had requested be designed in the style of the town hall of Brescia.

Ayas, Aosta Valley

It is made up of several frazioni (locally officially called hameaux, in French), the two major ones being Antagnod which holds the town hall and the main parish, and Champoluc.

Balagtas, Bulacan

In front of the town hall is spacious park where the monument of it hero, Francisco Balagtas is located.

Bełchatów

One municipal division of Bełchatów comprises numerous housing estates including the Budowlanych housing estate located in the central part of the town (close to the "Kultura" cinema, the Municipal Cultural Center, the Town Hall and the church).

Benoit Benoni-Auran

Some of his works are displayed in the Town Hall of Monteux.

Carlo Angela

Since 3 June 2000, a street holds the name of Carlo Angela in San Maurizio Canavese and a plaque was put up over entrance of the Town Hall.

Charles A. Crosby

Significant accomplishments during Crosby's tenure as mayor include the construction of Mariners Centre arena, the revitalization of the waterfront, significant improvements to the water and wastewater treatment systems, the development of Starrs Road as a thriving commercial district and the construction of the Town Hall.

Coaldale Big Green

In 1924 James Gildea set up a meeting at the town hall in Coaldale to establish the league made up of the coal region teams.

Decimus Burton

Burton's buildings include the North Euston Hotel, Pharos Lighthouse and Beach Lighthouse, Queen's Terrace, St Peter's Church, the Town Hall and his own house on Dock Street (where he lived until 1844).

Drama Desk Award

The awards ceremony was held on June 3, 2012 at The Town Hall, New York City, hosted by Brooke Shields and Brian d'Arcy James.

Erp, Netherlands

There are two known drawings of the old Saint Servatius Church: a somewhat romanticized pen drawing by the hand of Hendrik Spilman (1721–1784); and a sketch dated September 13, 1788 by the hand of architect Hendrik Verhees (1744–1813), who designed the town hall of Erp in 1791.

ESP-Disk

Other artists who have recorded for this label include Ornette Coleman (the "Town Hall Concert"), Pharaoh Sanders (who made his recording debut on ESP), Sun Ra, Ronnie Boykins, Marion Brown, Sonny Simmons, Paul Bley, Ran Blake, and Perry Robinson.

Fergus Falls, Minnesota

The town hall was modeled after Independence Hall in Philadelphia.

Fordwich

The 16th-century building next the Town Hall, now known as Watergate House, was the family home of John and Gregory Blaxland, early 19th-century pioneers of Australia.

Francesco Traballesi

In the Town Hall of Tivoli, the ancient Tibur in Latium, are two frescoes by Traballesi (1574), with scenes of The mythic foundation of Tibur.

Frigyes Schulek

His other restorations include the town hall of Lőcse (now Levoča, Slovakia) and churches at Ákos (now Acâș in Romania), Karcsa and Pozsony (now Bratislava, Slovakia).

Gander Public Library

In 1967 the library was moved again to the town hall, buying additional books in an auction from Boots UK as the firm discontinued the sale of these items in their business.

Hamilton Square

Features of the square include the town's cenotaph in front of the town hall, a large Queen Victoria Monument at the centre of the gardens and a statue of John Laird, the first Member of Parliament for Birkenhead and the son of William Laird.

Ieng Sary

Sary and Khieu Thirith married in the town hall of Paris' 15th arrondissement in the winter of 1951.

James Daugherty

In September 2006, controversy erupted at Hamilton Avenue School, an elementary school in Greenwich, Connecticut, over Daugherty's depiction of Bunker Hill hero and Connecticut native Israel Putnam in a mural commissioned by Public Works of Art Project for the town hall, and installed in the school in 1935.

Joris in 't Veld

After attending the mulo (junior high school) he started working as civil servant in the town hall of Dordrecht.

Killorglin

The town hall is held to have been built with the help of Andrew Carnegie.

Kolkata Town Hall

The town hall was featured on the 6th leg of The Amazing Race 18, when the teams had to compete in a tea-drinking roadblock.

Luis Antonio Belluga y Moncada

The Cathedral of Murcia, the episcopal palace of the Diocese of Cartagena, and the Town Hall (with a controversial extension to the town hall by Rafael Moneo) are found on this square.

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.

Manchester Town Hall Extension

The Town Hall Extension, housing municipal departments including rates, rents and street cleaning departments, was built after a competition in 1927 was won by E. Vincent Harris who, in the same year, won a competition to build Manchester Central Library on an adjacent site.

Marcel Blaguet Ledjou

Since November 2006 Ledjou is the Director of Communication and External Relations at the Town Hall of Port-Bouët, Abidjan, and holds a Master's degree in Communication, Administration and Management from the Université de Cocody in Abidjan.

Marvin Heemeyer

Outraged over the outcome of a zoning dispute, he armored a Komatsu D355A bulldozer with layers of steel and concrete and used it on June 4, 2004, to demolish the town hall, the former mayor's house, and other buildings in Granby, Colorado.

Nexø

Nexø Museum in the harbour area is housed in a historic sandstone building from 1796 which was the town hall until 1856 when it was replaced with a new building in Købmagergade.

Nikolaus Gromann

As late work he built masterful Renaissance building, which are considered his masterpieces : the Town Hall in Altenburg and the so-called New buildings in Weimar, the Grünes Schloß (now the “Duchess Anna Amalia Library” ) and the Französischen Bau of the Veste Heldburg ( today : German Castle Museum under construction) .

Norwood Town Hall

The Town Hall's concert hall featured in the film Shine with Geoffrey Rush playing the role of the pianist David Helfgott.

Orto botanico di Padova

The design of the Botanical Garden is commonly attributed to Andrea Moroni, who created some of the most important public monuments in Padua, such as the Basilica of Santa Giustina in Prato della Valle, the town hall and the university in the first half of the 16th century.

Paul Dax

1530 he devoted himself to glass-painting, and his works, which are of considerable merit, are now in the court-house of Innsbruck, and in the town-hall at Ensisheim, Alsace.

Prescott Town House

The building was built in 1838, serving as the town hall for Prescott, Massachusetts, a town that was unincorporated in order to make way for the Quabbin Reservoir in the 1930s.

Regina Pacis School

The school is located near most governmental and historical buildings of Bogor such as the court, the town hall, and the cathedral.

Scipio, Utah

Also on the Historic Register is the Town Hall built in 1935 which includes a museum for the family, D.U.P. and a Senior Citizens Center.

Slave Lake, Alberta

On May 16, provincial officials said that 40% of the town had been destroyed or damaged, including the town hall, the library, a radio station, a mall and a significant number of homes and other buildings; no injuries or deaths were reported.

Stendal

Other buildings include the Gothic cathedral, the Town Hall with the statue of Roland and the two mediaeval town gates.

Sutton Coldfield Town Hall

The area to the front of the town hall, King Edwards Square, became the main public assembly area and the stocks were displayed to the public in the square (now on display at Blakesley Hall).

The Peterloo Group

The first meeting was held in May 1957 in a hired room above the Town Hall Hotel, a Victorian gothic public house in Tib Lane adjacent to Albert Square, - and close to St Peter's Square where in 1819 the infamous Peterloo Massacre had taken place, and from which the group took its name.

Town Hall, Vilnius

Trading on the Town Hall Square was restricted by regulations such as the prohibition for the Jewish butchers to build their butcher’s shops both on the urban market and on Vokiečių (German) Street.

Weil der Stadt station

The facade of the building is built of red sandstone (Buntsandstein), which is also found in other buildings in Weil der Stadt (e.g. the church and the Rundbogenstil pillars of the town hall).

West Bromwich Town Hall

The Town Hall, situated in the centre of High Street, was built between 1874 and 1875 in brick and stone to an Italian Gothic design of the architects Alexander & Henman of Stockton-on-Tees, Middlesbrough and the building contractors were Trow & Sons of Wednesbury.

Williams family of Caerhays and Burncoose

He was the hero of the Battle of Batoche and his statue stands in front of the town hall at Port Hope.

Wojciech Rojowski

He was the creator of the Copernicus monument (1766), commissioned for the Town Hall of Toruń (predecessor to the later Nicolaus Copernicus Monument in Toruń).

Wolseley, Saskatchewan

The home of Wolseley's first mayor, R. A. Magee, immediately south of the Town Hall and Opera House is another heritage property.