Here’s Stockton Town Hall, which dates back to 1735. That’s the market cross standing tall in the foreground… and, erm, Shoe Zone squatting in the background. I posted more about the history twelve years ago, when it seems that the lower windows had window boxes, and there wasn’t and industrial bin sitting outside.

I’m given to understand that the Council chamber in the Town Hall is still in use; I had previously assumed that it had moved to somewhere in the nearby municipal buildings, which just goes to show that one should never assume…