It's certainly a very impressive, lion-flanked building (partially visible in the first of the photos above) - the kind that makes you think about nineteenth-century civic pride, and such.
Though a Hampshire child myself I'm afraid I've no memory of Portsmouth Town Hall at all, though I doubt either version was designed with Ruinenwert in mind. My sense is that bombs would have a pronounced negative effect on the overall look of the thing.
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Date: 2010-06-22 10:58 pm (UTC)Though a Hampshire child myself I'm afraid I've no memory of Portsmouth Town Hall at all, though I doubt either version was designed with Ruinenwert in mind. My sense is that bombs would have a pronounced negative effect on the overall look of the thing.