Old Photograph Municipal Buildings Paisley Scotland

Old photograph of the Municipal Buildings in Paisley by Glasgow, Scotland. The County Buildings immediately to the North East of the Cross. housed the court house, county hall, council chambers and offices. Municipal buildings like town halls, hospitals, and fire stations reveal much about the people who built them. They attest to the expanding power of the state as it took over administrative capabilities from the parish in the nineteenth century. Victorian and Edwardian buildings were often grand and lavish, whilst less extravagant styles prevailed before and afterwards.



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