After a weekend of fails in the rain, @SpiderMonkey and I had planned to give the City Hall a go, not really sure if we would get in or not - Google Streetview showing it to be covered with motion detectors and cameras all the way around. After being soaked by rain all weekend and not having much luck elsewhere, we decided to get a hotel a few minutes walk away from City Hall in order to dry off and get a few beers. Drying off complete, beers had, we went for a wander to see the state of play at the old hall and we were relieved to find the sensors had gone and a nice horading had been erected, hiding our search for a way in from the passing public. Very handy! After finding a way in we headed back to the hotel for a bit of sleep and returned the next morning to shoot it in daylight.
In the mid-19th century the civic leaders needed a public hall in which to hold concerts and other public events and the first city hall was built on the site of the old flesh, butter and meal markets in what became King Edward Street in 1844. By the turn of the century the first city hall was in a very dilapidated state and, after a piece of plaster fell from the ceiling injuring several people, the building was demolished in 1908.
The foundation stone for the new building was laid by the Lord Provost, Councillor James Cuthbert, on 26 June 1909. It was designed by Harry Edward Clifford and Thomas Melville Lunan in the Classical style, built at a cost of £25,000 and officially opened by the Lord Justice General, Lord Dunedin, on 29 April 1911.
Redevelopment work is now well underway, with plans to reopen the building as Perth Museum in 2024.
In the mid-19th century the civic leaders needed a public hall in which to hold concerts and other public events and the first city hall was built on the site of the old flesh, butter and meal markets in what became King Edward Street in 1844. By the turn of the century the first city hall was in a very dilapidated state and, after a piece of plaster fell from the ceiling injuring several people, the building was demolished in 1908.
The foundation stone for the new building was laid by the Lord Provost, Councillor James Cuthbert, on 26 June 1909. It was designed by Harry Edward Clifford and Thomas Melville Lunan in the Classical style, built at a cost of £25,000 and officially opened by the Lord Justice General, Lord Dunedin, on 29 April 1911.
Redevelopment work is now well underway, with plans to reopen the building as Perth Museum in 2024.
The Main Hall
Main Entrance and Corridors
The Lesser Hall
Main Entrance and Corridors
The Lesser Hall
