Where Am I? No. 128 - House somewhere

[John915]

Good evening,

I'm thinking town hall with registrars on right. Just the sort of small board still in use today to show a list of the days marriage ceremonies.

John915

[Treetotal]

Register Office?
Carol

[John915]

Back again,

Alright then, register office.  on the right.

But the registrars are inside, 

john915

[sugarbakers]

Caz, whilst this one is proving to be a problem, the solution is written in the picture. The triangular top (pediment) of the little notice board has the organisation who use the building, and maybe the town/city, written on it.
Probably six words.

A closer scan may provide you with the answer yourself, otherwise it may help us all to make a more informed guess as to what it says.


[Even 'barrel dormers' hasn't worked   ]

[lizdb]

Closer scan of that board would be great.

Im guessing it may say something district council, and if so, the something is a short word.

Seems to have a flag pole .  Id definitely guess it is some sort of council building of some sort.

The big mystery remains - where?

[Barbara.H]

The words do look like three words round the top, two words in centre, one word at bottom.
Xxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx

Or the top row might be two words, one short & one long:
Xxxx Xxxxx[top of board]xxxxxxx

If the bottom line is a place name, it contains no letters with 'tails' e.g. p,q,g,y etc

Might be wishful thinking but I wonder if the middle row says High School. I think it looks like a Victorian school building that has had an annexe built possibly 1900-1930, linking it with another building. Maybe a junior and senior school merged into one?

  Barbara

[roopat]

I thought the building set back at the side looked like a junior school with separate entrances for boys and girls - I know you can only see one door but it looks odd offset to one side like that. So the more imposing building could well be the senior department.

[Rhododendron]

My guess is still that this is a Council building of some.sort.

[ScouseBoy]

The old building in the foreground is the Town Hall which has stood there for more than 60 years.

The newer building with the flag pole, I believe  is new build  between 1946 and 1952  to hose additional Welfare services  such as Health visitors  and  child and maternity services brought in about 1948.     Possibly the National Assistance Act of 1948.

So. My answer is Town Hall  and New  Maternity and childrens services building built circa 1948 or 1949.