copyright Chris Mansfield
This red brick building can be found in Polytechnic street ( formerly Lower market street ) It is attached to back of the old 1841 Town hall building.. Originally this site was the garden of the borough surveyor. The town hall next door was used for all sorts of things, including coroners court and pretty soon, as the town was expanding it bacame too small for all the demands put upon it. In 1892 this place, designed by H.H.Church was built to be the County court . copyright Chris Mansfield