Sujet

Town Hall, Bexley Square, Salford, 1942. Creator: George Bernard Wood.

Légende

Town Hall, Bexley Square, Salford, 1942. An exterior view of the Town Hall, showing the south facade with two contemporary cars in the foreground. The hall was built by Richard Lane between 1825 and 1827, and the south facade has two storeys and five bays, with a three bay Doric portico with giant columns, a pediment and frieze with four relief wreaths. In the image the windows have blackout fabric covering them, and a temporary brick wall over the main entrance. The street furniture is painted with black and white stripes, to faciliate night-time driving during World War II.

Date

1942

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England Archive

Notre référence

HRM21B16_138

Model release

Non

Property release

Non

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

71,2Mo (4,4Mo) / 49,8cm x 35,8cm / 5884 x 4230 (300dpi)

Mots clés

transport transportation exterior outdoors building England car cars automobile square architecture arts safety country art British English county lighting lamppost Town Hall Neo-classical column pillar pillars war location century lancashire Britain wartime concept georgian B&W 1940s parked salford Doric Forties road Transport street Lighting Motor Car World War II World War two 19th century WWII black & white black and white B W Neoclassical Neoclassicism world war 2 20th century nineteenth century Neo-Classicism decade Greater Manchester Second World War streetlighting TGN WW2 outside photograph Listed Building 2nd World War Richard Grade II Lane Historic England 19th-century George Bernard Wood Wood George Bernard Bexley Square Richard Lane