Town Hall, Plymouth, Devon (1823)
J. Storer, H. S. Storer
| Repository | Library | Shelf |
|---|---|---|
| Devon | West Country Studies | S SC2144 |
| Devon | PLY | I/S |
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SC2144
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CD 33 DVD 5
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Sanford, John. The tourist's companion; being a guide to Devonport, Stoke, Morice-Town, Stonehouse, and Plymouth. Devonport: W. Colman, c.1825. p. 7.Town Hall. This noble building is in Ker-street; and contains within its walls a spacious room, measuring 75 feet by 40, and 31 feet in height; with retiring rooms for the magistrates, sitting-rooms, accommodations for the overseers of the poor, a watch-house, and convenient cells or prisons for the safe custody of persons whose unhappy lot it may be to be charged with criminal offences. The parts occupied by the commissioners of the town include the hall and felon's prisons, watch-house, prisons and engine-house, apartments for paying the commissioners' out poor and overseers' casual poor, depository for lamps, paving tools, &. The plan of the building was prepared by Mr. Foulston, the architect; and the first stone laid, with the usual ceremonies, in June, 1821.[Text may be taken from a different source or edition than that listed as the source by Somers Cocks.]
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Copper l.engr
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64x103mm
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Dates
1823