It was refurbished in 2011 and re-opened as the City's Register office in July of that year.
Set up by Act of Parliament in 1837, the statutory registration service is overseen by the Registrar General as part of the General Register Office (now part of the Home Office Identity and Passport Service) but provided locally by the county or unitary local authority.
Wyatt married property developer Bill Harkness at Hammersmith Register Office in 1986, and they have two children, Joanna and Jack.
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In 1994 it was leased to Glasgow City Council, which operated the building as the city's register office for civil marriages.
It was also used as a central London register office until 1979, many famous people being married there including Donald Campbell (two marriages), Harrison Marks, Billy Butlin, Elizabeth Taylor, Diana Dors, Peter Sellers, Roger Moore, Orson Welles, Joan Collins, Yehudi Menuhin, Adam Faith, Robin Nedwell, Barry Gibb, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.
Joy married Billy Wright on 28 July 1958 at Poole Register Office; Wright was the first footballer to play for England 100 times.
From that date, marriage ceremonies could be performed, and certificates issued either by a clergyman of the Church of England, in a parish church, or by a civil registrar in a civil register office.
Olivia and George married in a private ceremony in September 1978 at the Henley-on-Thames Register Office in England.