Coburg City Hall
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The Coburg City Hall was the previous Town Hall of the City of Coburg in Melbourne Australia.
It is situated on Bell Street, Coburg. The merger caused a large extension including more function rooms to be constructed in 2000, extending the buildings from Bell Street through to Urquhart Street.
The original building was constructed by Cockram & Cooper Builders and designed by C.R. Heather A.R.V.I.A. The building consisting of a white Dome and two wings (each with a hall in them), and was officially opened on 1 April 1922, by the Earl of Stradbroke, and Mayor W.E. Cash and the keystone reads
- "Built in honour of those who served in the Great War 1914-18."
Another curiosity of the building is that a stone on the Eastern Wing (now near the Municipalities Office Extension) reads
- "C.E. Williams for efforts to establishing a free Public Library in Coburg. 30 June 1923".
The Coburg Town hall actually had the first installed Australian Designed and Constructed film projection unit (Raycophone), that was installed early in 1930. At the opening night Mayor Cr. Campbell read out letters from the Premier and PM Scullin who wrote
- "If similar steps were taken extensively the present depression would be vastly relieved".
It is also reported that the dome at the front of the theatre used to show a neon sign saying "Talkies" until the late 40s.
Also of interest, on the back corner of Hall's block on Elm and Urquhart street is the "Coburg City Band and Truby King Rooms", constructed from 1925, when the foundation stone was laid 10 October 1925 by Sir Truby King, and completed on 24 July 1926, with a keystone laid by Mayor Cr. J. Robinson. It was designed by D.McC.Dawnson C.E. and now houses the Elm Grove Infant Welfare Centre.
Three or four other main halls are also now part of the City Hall complex.
After the amalgamatian of the City of Coburg with the City of Brunswick and the southern portion of the City of Moreland in 1994 to form the City of Moreland, the City Hall became the the corporate headquarters of the new Moreland City Council (City of Moreland).
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