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In the early 1920s, civic leaders decided to procure a dedicated town hall: the site they selected on the west side of
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was formed in 1974. The 21st century saw the theatre becoming an approved venue for weddings and civil partnerships. It also became a professional boxing venue in 2019, after an interval of some 80 years, and was declared Venue of the Year by the
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The design of the new building involved a symmetrical main frontage with fifteen bays facing onto the
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windows at attic level. Internally, the principal rooms included a theatre, known as the
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