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Outcompeted.

            Meant to be Burslem's third town hall, the Queen's Hall, unfortunately, never took on its intended mantle.
Sitting on Wedgwood Place, beside Wedgwood Street and Jenkins Street in the town centre of Burslem, this grade II listed building was completed in 1911 to a design by S. B. Russell & Edwin Cooper of London and conceived as a replacement for the former town hall which sits opposite. However, the towns that make up Stoke-on-Trent federated in 1910 and the town hall in Stoke assumed control over the county borough and subsequent city and thus this building never really adopted its intended purpose.
The Queen's Hall then assumed the role of a theatre with the North Staffordshire Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society taking residency in 1966.
Building works to the interior appear to have been started in 2022 hinting at a new purpose for this iconic landmark with the council hinting at a new use for the hall by another public sector body.
As can be seen, the rear of the building is built from brick, possibly to offset the cost of the facade.
The far right building is Thomas and John Wedgwood's "Big House" and the nearer the old Post Office.
   

Taken in: UK / England / Burslem (show map)

Taken on: February 24, 2019

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Camera: Nikon D7100, f/8.0, 1/1000 sec, 12mm (=18mm), ISO 800 (more info) (hide info)

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