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The Council House. Camera No. 4

The key changes since this photograph was taken in 1926 are of the buildings across the other side of Earl Street. That area, including the Palace Yard, was particularly flattened in 1940 and is now home to the courts and council administration.
The Council House itself was still quite a new building in the first photograph. Construction started the year before the first world war began and was complete by 1917. Only minor bomb damage was sustained during the WW2 air raids and the photo's show that essentially, nothing has altered today.
The building appears to have been designed with sympathy for its ancient surroundings, unlike (in my own opinion) the newer constructions on the right of the 2003 picture, which just don't seem to share any common ground with each other, let alone the fine historic buildings which they replaced.
If you wish to learn a little more about the Council House, please see it on the Tour pages.

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