HEREFORD TOWN HALL

One of the many still unresearched areas of the Very British Civil War is the power relationship between the "new" central Government in Westminster and Whitehall (Mosley and Edward VIII) and the local authorities in towns and cities. Some time ago, the Bishop's Broadcasting Service looked at the members of Hereford City Council in 1935, questioning "What would they have done?" upon the outbreak of the VBCW. Now it's time to take a quick look at where they all met and worked in Hereford, at the "New" Town Hall, St. Owens Street: 

The "New" Town Hall in Hereford, a pre 1914 photograph.

A "colourised" version of another pre 1914 photograph

"New" Town Hall in landscape rather than portrait format.

A modern day photograph of the Town Hall. Save for the cars, nothing has changed since the VBCW.

Illustrations from an Edwardian magazine upon the opening of the 
New Town Hall on 9th June 1904. Splendid interiors, with a number
of local worthies commemorated : the then Mayor, Alderman H.C. Beddoe;
the then Town Clerk, Mr Joseph Carless; the architect, Mr H.A. Cheers;
and the contractor, Mr W.J. Bowers. As noted, Princess Henry of 
Battenberg (daughter of Queen Victoria) laid the foundation stone
on 13th May 1902. All Very British !

[Add edit] : The 1937 Town Council can be seen both "in state" and "on film" in THIS POST on Queen Mary's (short) visit to Hereford to open the King George V Playing Fields.

[Add edit] Princess Henry of Battenberg (Princess Beatrice) had an interesting life. See her WIKI HERE