Felixstowe Town Hall
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Felixstowe Town Hall
Image: © Stephen McKay Taken: 26 Mar 2018
Felixstowe Town Hall, on the seafront, was built in 1892 for the Felixstowe and Walton Joint Board. It subsequently became home to Felixstowe Urban District Council. When that body was disbanded in 1974, the hall was used as the base for Felixstowe Town Council who acquired ownership of the building from Suffolk Coastal District Council in 2007. Since then it has undergone a major refurbishment and, as well as hosting council meetings, it now has a number of other functions including a licence to hold marriages and civil partnerships. Until the end of the 1990s the building housed the magistrates court. Perhaps the most significant event here was the trial in 1914 of two suffragettes, Evaline Burkitt and Florence Tunks, who were convicted of arson after they burnt down the town's Bath Hotel in furtherance of their cause.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.959164
Longitude
1.348244