Plinths on accy market hall

[flashy]

I was stood on the bus station the other day outside the papershop and i looked over at the top of the market hall and saw they have a few plinths up there, what where they used for and has anything ever been on the top of them?

I've tried to search for it on here but couldn't find anything

[garinda]

Originally Posted by flashy

I was stood on the bus station the other day outside the papershop and i looked over at the top of the market hall and saw they have a few plinths up there, what where they used for and has anything ever been on the top of them?

I've tried to search for it on here but couldn't find anything

Do you mean on the side hun?

They never had anything on them, as far as I know.

[garinda]

You can see the side of the Market Hall on this photograph.

[garinda]

More views.

[Margaret Pilkington]

It makes me wonder of they were once chimneys that have been capped off.

[Margaret Pilkington]

On a totally different note, today when we went into town we walked under the viaduct and there were men there cutting down mature trees and ripping up the shrubbery.
I looks like this area is going to have some sort of cobblestone barrier and great lumps of stone set in earth.

It really grieves me to see the destruction of mature trees. They are a habitat for the birds and they soften the sharp lines that buildings make.
I thought thecouncil were short of money...yet here they are, fixing something that wasn't broken.

[susie123]

I always thought they were chimneys or ventilation ducts or similar. In the photo with the bus the second one from the left appears to have a chimney coming out of the top.

That coloured photo shows just how awful that new market structure is and how it detracts from the old building. I can hardly bear to look at it.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

It makes me wonder of they were once chimneys that have been capped off.

The ones down the side were chimneys.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by susie123

I always thought they were chimneys or ventilation ducts or similar. In the photo with the bus the second one from the left appears to have a chimney coming out of the top.

That coloured photo shows just how awful that new market structure is and how it detracts from the old building. I can hardly bear to look at it.

Even more awful is that inside the carbuncle are a great number of empty stalls.

[susie123]

From English Heritage:

Market house, 1868, by J.F. Doyle. Ashlar, 3-span roof of slate and glass supported on iron frame. Wide rectangular plan, gable to road. Two storeys.

Robust 9-bay symmetrical facade in ornate Renaissance style: Corinthian pilasters to ends and centre, flanking blind arcading with cornice and balustraded parapet. The centre 3 bays are treated as a Triumphal Arch with round-headed doorway (a bull's head on the keystone), and ornate panelled attic which has a clockface between cherubs with cornucopias and carries on each side sculptured groups of figures with agricultural produce; the flanking walls each have a central door, sashed ground floor windows and circular 1st floor windows.

Side walls have coupled sashes and 1st floor lunettes, tall chimneys on the parapet, and a pedimented entrance in the centre. Interior: 7-bay nave and aisle arcade of slim iron columns supporting slender roof trusses with tie-rods; balcony round all sides (carrying offices). History: built by Local Board of Health.

[garinda]

It is the most beautiful market hall I've ever seen in this country.

The magnificant frontage used to fascinate me as a child.

It was terrible when the statuary was taken down for a couple of years, to be cleaned and repaired.

I was so glad when they came back.

I would have hunted in every councillor's garden, until they were found.

[mobertol]

Shame it isn't as well used as it used to be -always remember the market heaving on a Saturday, inside and out.

The biggest shame of all, looking at the old photos is that you don't get such a good view of a really impressive building it is because of all the cheap, nasty outside stalls blocking the entrance and side.

[mobertol]

The Old Piece Hall in Halifax is a very impressive and well used building, quite a thriving place when I went there a few years ago. Think it was the original wool market for the town...

[flashy]

Thanx you lot, i don't know why i'd never noticed them before

[Bob Dobson]

From memory, the design of the Burnley Market Hall is (was?) very similar.