Old Town Hall, Knaresborough
We're still in Knaresborough, the town that gave us so much history to explore within the hour we were there. We're going back to the early 17th century when Knaresborough's first municipal building turned out to be a converted toll booth. They changed it into a sessions house with the basement acting as a prison with two cells as of 1768. You may wonder at what point a simple toll booth come sessions house complete with prison cells turned into a town hall. Well that came later, mid 19th century to be exact, when it was decided that the sessions house was no longer needed, so they knocked it down and built a new town hall over it. The new hall was completed in 1862 after being funded by Sir Charles Slingsby, 10th Baronet who was also lord of the manor regarding Scriven Hall and so the decisions fell to him anyway. The new hall had an arcade on the ground floor making it perfect for markets and then an assembly room for hall meetings was on the first floor. Des...
