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One of the Court Rooms at the old County Hall processed Wallis Simpson's divorce thus playing a major part in British History. Didn't notice that when watching "The Crown" on Netflix.
As the Chicago News-Tribune headline put it at the time: 'King's Moll Reno'd in Wolsey's Home Town'.
It may or may not be the case that, out of deference to The Queen and The Queen Mother, any Ipswich bids to become a city were doomed to fail because of the town's role in the Abdication.
I've always thought it a hideous building personally.
Talk in that article about the old Odeon cinema building too. Why does it take councils 20 years to do anything about derelict buildings like these? And where's the architectural merit in that Odeon building? It's an eye sore, bulldoze it I say.