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The old Town Hall

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The old Town Hall

Post by Trigger » Sat Nov 19, 2016 8:32 am

Being mindful of the boarding-up of the windows in the old Town Hall (Local News), I wondered what might be happening with the large stained glass window in the Council Chamber. Would it also be boarded up – or perhaps removed? So I trekked in a northerly direction to Mariners Street to view the back of that building. There is scaffolding around the window – which could suggest that will be removed as, I would think, it has a value in it's own right.

From The Independent 28/11/95:
“Another fine Peto legacy to Lowestoft, although much harder to discover, rests inside the old town hall, which sits happily on the quiet High Street - most of the town has drifted down towards the shopping centres in London Road North. Here, in the Council Chamber is some superb stained glass (above) originally intended for Peto's Somerleyton Hall. Costing 800 guineas, the large window offers a magnificent depiction of the Field of the Cloth of Gold, when Henry VIII and Francis I of France sealed a deal more than 400 years ago: the Tudor equivalent of John Major and Jacques Chirac?”
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/sit ... 84106.html
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Re: The old Town Hall

Post by Mel » Sun Nov 20, 2016 1:05 pm

That is most interesting Trigger. I found a picture of the window HERE
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Post by frankiesays » Tue Dec 06, 2016 3:58 pm

It's really nice isn't it. Hope it doesn't go walkabouts as it belongs in the town somewhere.
It's grim up North...

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Post by SheilaO » Wed Feb 22, 2017 8:25 pm

thank you for that, very interesting, I hope it's being looked after.

I note these posts were from November and December, does anyone know anything further. There is such a lot of history in The Old High Street, it would be a great pity if things were just allowed to disintegrate, or get 'lost'.
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