1869 - Grimwade Memorial Hall - Fore Hamlet - Ipswich, Suffolk
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The Grimwade Memorial Hall on Fore Hamlet, Ipswich. Built in 1869 and converted into flats 2006.
Waymark Code: WMR2NE
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 05/03/2016
Views: 3
At the junction of Back Hamlet and Fore Hamlet sits the former 19th century Grimwade Memorial Hall, now 35 flats. The restored building carries lettering tablets old and new, plus an attractive stonework doorway, both on the Fore Hamlet pavement.
The Grimwade name has been closely associated with Ipswich for more than a century, with the family providing four mayors and running a department store on the Cornhill, which closed in 1995.
Year of construction: 1869
Full inscription:
'GRIMWADE MEMORIAL BUILDING
OFFICIALLY OPENED BY
COLIN AND PETER GRIMWADE
30th NOVEMBER 2006
BUILT BY THE BRACEFORCE GROUP'
'THIS FOUNDATION STONE
WAS LAID SEPTEMBER 9.1869, BY
F.J. SARGOOD ESQ.
BUILDING COMMITTEE.
EDWARD GRIMWADE. JOHN MAY.
OLIVER PRENTICE. JOSEPH F. ALEXANDER.
ARCHITECTS MESSRS. CATTERMOLE & EADE.
CONTRACTOR W.G. CUNNOLD.'
Cross-listed waymark: Not listed
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