Qualitative research
Hyde town hall was built in the 1880's by the firm samuel and sons. The architect was J.W. Beaumont who had won a competition between six architects with his design for a building in "Queen Anne Revival" style which would cost less than £8,000 (the limit set by Hyde Borough Council which had been formed in 1881). The hyde foundation stone was laid on June 30th by Thomas ashton Eso.jp first mayor of the borough and hyde town hall was opened by the second mayor Edward Hibbert. Hyde town hall dominates the market area.
The chartist statue by Stephen Broadbent unveiled outside hyde town hall on the 28th November 2002 to celebrate the achievements of the Chartists movement. The chartist ligation of the 1838-48 was one of the most remarkable social upheavals ever known in the history of Britain. Chartism was so called because it's basis was a charter of right for all including the right to vote.
Hyde town hall is used for functions ie:weddings,meetings,party's etc.it offers high facilities for both social and corporate events.
Joshua Bradley was the Donner of the bell clock which is called the owd josh (old josh) when Joshua's father died he was sent to work to learn pin winding and ball making with a local thread manufacturer. Through hard work and determination he rose to manage the Boston Cotton Mill in Hyde and in 1885 was elected to Hyde Town Council to represent Godley Ward. He retired in 1888 and died in 1898.
In 1965 Myra Hindley and Ian Brady know as the moors killers had they're hearing at Hyde town hall. Myra Hindley and Ian Brady was arrested at their home in Hattersley in the 1960's after the police found the body of a 17 year old Boy Edward Evans in their home. They where later found guilty of killing Edward along with 2 other children which their bodies where buried and found in saddle worth moor. They later confessed to killing two other children. The hall had a magistrates' court, a police station, underground prison cells and a police mortuary in the courtyard. Police spent hours interrogating the pair in the interview rooms on the first floor of the police station. The cell which she was held in is now a broom cupboard.
Hyde town Halls war memorial is at the top of the staircase leading to the public hall in Hyde Town Hall. The memorial consists of five wall-mounted oak panels with the names of the men who died in the great war. Werneth war memorial states the names of 710 men that lost their lives, but only 707 names was recorded on the panels .At the top the words: "In memory of the men of this borough who gave their lives for our country.” And at the bottom is "Make them to be numbered with thy saints in glory everlasting.”
Secondary research.
HTTP://www.tameside.gov.uk/warmemorial/hydetownhall
I did a web search on who was the mayor of Hyde Town Hall in 1914 when world war 1 was and my result showed that it was Stanley Welch he was mayor in 1914-1916. It was also on this Web search i found out about the memorial which bears the names of the men that died in the Great War.
http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results?basicsearch=opening%20of%20hyde%20town%20hall
This is a print screen of a search of the british newspaper archive and the results I found,which was about the opening of Hyde Town hall.http://www.tameside.gov.uk/tamesideinfo/chartism
I did a web search on the statue out side of Hyde town hall and it showed me about the chartists movement. The statue was made by Stephen Broadbent.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyde,_Greater_Manchester
This is a web search on Myra Hindley and Ian Brady and I found that they both had there hearing there.
http://oldhyde.blogspot.co.uk/2009/06/hyde-town-hall-1898.html
I did web searches in order to find out what firm built Hyde town hall and one name consistently showed up in my results and that was Samuel Robinson and sons. I also found out about Joshua Bradley, Joshua Bradley was the Donner of the bell clock tower which is named after him which is called the old josh.
Annals of Hyde and district is a book by Thomas Middleton he talks about hyde and many other districts such as; Denton and Dukinfield etc. He mentions several aspects of hyde town hall including the war memorial inside.
primary research.
Questionnaires.
I did my first questionnaire on word and handed it out to several people 20 in fact both male and female of all ages.here is an example of a male that has answered the questionnaire, from question 1-7.
This is a questionnaire of a male 16-24 who is interested in history but doesn't take notice in things that doesn't interest him but he does know what Hyde town hall is used for,why there is a mayor, and what it does for the local area.
I also did the same questionnaire on poll junkie but i didn't get enough results to put in a graph, so I then used the questionnaires that I first used and put them in a graph and split male and female.
these graphs estimate the male and female percentage of the questionnaire poll junkie is well known for its well creative questionnaires to let you know
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