The plaque reads: ” The New Town Hall was erected by public subscription to the design of Horace Jones, architect to the Corporation of the City of London. The Builder was W.P. James. The foundation stone was laid by Mr Walter Coffin in 1849. Remains of old walls, large buildings & a circular well stairway were unearthed as the foundations were dug out. Described in 1853 as a very handsome building, the New Town Hall included the assizes and county courts, the Post Office, police station and fire brigade & remained the administrative centre of the borough until the opening of the City Hall in Cathays Park in 1905.”
I’d love to know what was on this site before the New Town Hall.
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Stuart has been writing PHP applications since 2003, and has been contributing to open-source software since 1994. He was an early writer for php|architect, a co-author of the Official Zend Certification Study Guide for PHP 4, and a regular speaker at conferences and user groups since 2004.
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My theme this week is the wonderfully gothic Scott Monument in Edinburgh, a memorial to the great writer Sir Walter Scott, who died in 1832.
The sides of the Scott Monument feature statues of characters from his writing. This is Bailie Nicol Jarvie (I think), from the novel Rob Roy, sculpted by George A. Lawson.
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About The Author
Stuart has been writing PHP applications since 2003, and has been contributing to open-source software since 1994. He was an early writer for php|architect, a co-author of the Official Zend Certification Study Guide for PHP 4, and a regular speaker at conferences and user groups since 2004.
When he's not designing software, Stuart loves to explore the world through a camera lens, spend time with his beloved guitars, and continue his study to T'ai Chi Chu'an (Taijiquan).
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My theme this week is the wonderfully gothic Scott Monument in Edinburgh, a memorial to the great writer Sir Walter Scott, who died in 1832.
Walk along the main shopping street of Edinburgh, and you can’t fail to notice the gothic spires of the Scott Monument rising high into the sky. Walk up 287 steps, and from the top you are rewarded with a wonderful across this most beautiful of cities.
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About The Author
Stuart has been writing PHP applications since 2003, and has been contributing to open-source software since 1994. He was an early writer for php|architect, a co-author of the Official Zend Certification Study Guide for PHP 4, and a regular speaker at conferences and user groups since 2004.
When he's not designing software, Stuart loves to explore the world through a camera lens, spend time with his beloved guitars, and continue his study to T'ai Chi Chu'an (Taijiquan).
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I can’t remember whether the highly-publicised crackdown on problem parking began before this shot was taken, but you can see from this shot that even the threat of towing away problem parked vehicles simply isn’t taken seriously in Cardiff.
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About The Author
Stuart has been writing PHP applications since 2003, and has been contributing to open-source software since 1994. He was an early writer for php|architect, a co-author of the Official Zend Certification Study Guide for PHP 4, and a regular speaker at conferences and user groups since 2004.
When he's not designing software, Stuart loves to explore the world through a camera lens, spend time with his beloved guitars, and continue his study to T'ai Chi Chu'an (Taijiquan).
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