What if, the town hall was never built?
Ever wondered what the buildings that were there before the old Town hall was built would look like today if they'd survived?
Below, by kind permission of Bradford on Avon museum is a great little semi orthographic drawing of those buildings by Alfred William field Spragg (1838 to 1898), a civil engineer, who drew them at the top of the builders receipt for £3000. Which was their charge for building the Town hall.
Below that is my impression of what they would look like today, Sitting at the corner of Church Street and Market Street.
Below, by kind permission of Bradford on Avon museum is a great little semi orthographic drawing of those buildings by Alfred William field Spragg (1838 to 1898), a civil engineer, who drew them at the top of the builders receipt for £3000. Which was their charge for building the Town hall.
Below that is my impression of what they would look like today, Sitting at the corner of Church Street and Market Street.
Above, the main building on the corner is a beautiful Elizabethan pub called the Hare. (That I've got quite fond of while working on it). It's half built of stone, and the other three buildings are all half timbered with stone plinths, like the old bank House on the opposite side of Church Street.
On the right is the Old town hall (now a Catholic Church) that stands on the same site today. I love the domed tower which can be seen from many parts of Bradford.
It seems like some of the inspiration for the town hall comes from the buildings that were there before. Like the corner entrance of the town hall comes from the little pointed arch that cuts off the point of the ground floor corner of the Hare pub. Jake Lara
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Photo from Google Street view
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