200Years of Bourne Town Hall: Our Past, Present and Future.

After several years The trustees of The Old Town Hall are in the final stages of applying for National Heritage Lottery Funding to restore and reconfigure the building to provide a community arts centre and heritage hub. Over the past 5years we have been staging "meanwhile events" which have included music, poetry, drama, film, craft and well being fairs and an extremely successful Comic Con. All of which were extremely well attended.

We want to showcase the journey of the Town Hall, since it was built in 1821 with the aid of various donations from local people. We will be doing this through old photographs, information points and leaflets. The courtroom will be set out as it was for its most recent use as a magistrates court. Some of our volunteers, besides trustees, will be on hand to welcome visitors and talk about the history of the building, what has been happening more recently and the future vision.
Architects plans have been submitted and will be on display alongside the visualisations of both the interior and exterior of the building.
Refreshments will be on sale in the Shambles area, which is where the old market was situated, and is where we hold our live events. You will be able to see where we have exposed some of the original stone and brick work, a taste of our future sympathetic redevelopment.

Timings & Tours

Saturday 07 September:

Starting 1000 Finish 1500

Location & directions

The Old Town Hall, North Street, Bourne, Lincolnshire, PE10 9EA

Directions:

The Old Town Hall is situated at the traffic lights at the crossroads in the centre of Bourne, the building with the Neoclassical façade. Parking is behind the building in the Marks and Spencer's car park(free for 2hrs). To access the car park - if approaching from the south turn right at the traffic lights, from the north turn left, west carry straight on, take the second road on the left (first turn is no entry) -fish and chip shop on corner, take first left and at end of road turn right and you will see the car park. The entrance to the front of Old Town Hall is via an alleyway at the top of the adjacent Corn Exchange car park. If coming on the Spalding road turn right into Recreation Road(opposite Abbey Lawns entrance -fish and chip shop on the corner) turn first left at the end turn right and you will see the car park.

Contact on day:

Hilary Bloomer

Telephone number:

+447964732177

Booking information

Pre-booking requirement:

Pre-booking not required

Accessibility details

Due to the nature of our old building there is currently no disabled access to the first floor courtroom, it is accessed via stairs.

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