Wisbech Town Hall

[3] The current building in North Brink was commissioned as an Exchange Hall: it was designed by Joseph Medworth in the neoclassical style, built in ashlar stone and completed in 1811.

[1] The first floor featured sash windows which were flanked by Ionic order pilasters supporting a pediment with a carving of cross keys of Saint Peter in the tympanum.

[1] Magistrates' court hearings, which had been held in a first floor room in the Butter Market, were moved to more substantial facilities in the town hall in 1854.

[1] A new bridge across the River Nene was constructed in front of the town hall and was opened by the mayor, Thomas Steed Watson, on 9 November 1857.

[13] In 1889, it was the venue for the annual inspection of the unit, which was now renamed E Company (Wisbech Detachment) of the 3rd Cambridgeshire Volunteer Battalion, Suffolk Regiment.

[4] The proprietor Norman Jacobs MBE also set up skating rinks, would run Saturday night dances and helped to bring some of the other biggest names in show business to the Corn Exchange among those were Ken Dodd, Tom Jones, Frankie Vaughan and the Hollies, although he turned down the Beatles because they were too expensive at the time.

The first town hall in Hill Street