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Camberwell Town Hall, London

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and built by Galbraith Brothers. It was officially opened by the mayor, Councillor S. E. Hall, on 10 October 1934. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with three bays facing onto Peckham Road; the central bay featured an arched doorway with a
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were taken down during the works and transferred to Tooley Street. The works, which involved extending the building further north along Harvil Street, also facilitated provision of a new auditorium for
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in March 2009, the building was sold to a developer, Alumno Developments, in December 2014. Works to convert the property into student accommodation to a design by Jestico and Whiles for
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The building took over the role of headquarters of the Metropolitan Borough of Camberwell and continued to be the local seat of government, when the enlarged
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above. Internally, the principal rooms were the council chamber and the mayor's parlour both on the first floor. The council chamber featured the original
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was formed in 1965. It then became known as "Southwark Town Hall" and benefited from some refurbishment works in the reception area in 1980.
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in the form of the helm of a ship on the ground floor; there was a tall recess on the first, second and third floors flanked by four huge
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walls, which had been recovered from the vestry hall, together with completely new seating furniture for the council members.
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hall on the site which had been designed by Edward Power in a mixture of
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were completed in 2016. Memorials to council staff who had died in the
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The building was commissioned to replace an aging 19th century
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Buildings and structures in the London Borough of Southwark
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The new building was designed by Culpin and Bowers in the
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Camberwell
51°28′27″N 0°04′58″W / 51.4741°N 0.0828°W / 51.4741; -0.0828
Classical style
Camberwell Town Hall, London is located in London Borough of Southwark
Camberwell
vestry
French Renaissance style
Italianate style
St Giles
Metropolitan Borough of Camberwell
Classical style
keystone
composite order
antae
pedestal
coved ceiling
pilastered
London Borough of Southwark
160 Tooley Street
Goldsmiths College
First
Second World Wars
Theatre Peckham





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