Gardens · South East England
Portslade Town Hall
Portslade Town Hall — a garden in england-south-east, United Kingdom.
Pip Tindall — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence
Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2.5 h
- Best time of year
- Spring & summer (Apr–Sep)
About
Portslade Town Hall is a garden of interest in england-south-east, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
Portslade Town Hall, formerly the Ronuk Hall and Welfare Institute, is a municipal building in Victoria Road in Portslade, East Sussex, England. The structure, which was the meeting place of Portslade Urban District Council Council, is a locally-listed building.
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Background
History
Following significant population growth, largely associated with the seaside tourism industry, the area became an urban district in 1898. The new council initially operated from offices in Station Road. Meanwhile, Ronuk Limited, a polish manufacturing company founded by Horace Fowler, opened a new factory in Portslade in 1902. After high demand for the product led to expansion of the business, the directors decided to procure a social club for the workforce to be known as the Ronuk Hall and Welfare Institute. The foundation stone for the new social club was laid by Marion Elizabeth Chignell, whose father had been a director of the company, on 28 July 1927. The social club was designed by…
Sourced from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates
- 50.8366, -0.2114
- Address
- Victoria Road, Portslade
- Established
- 1928
Sources
- wikidata: Q107192357 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Portslade Town Hall (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Portslade Town Hall?
- Portslade Town Hall is in South East England, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 50.8366°, -0.2114°.
- When was Portslade Town Hall built?
- Portslade Town Hall dates to 1928.