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|  | SHEFFIELD CITY HALL HISTORY |  |
 Built of Darley Dale stone, Sheffield City Hall opened on 22 September 1932 three years after the foundation stone was laid in 1929. Parliamentary powers were granted under the Sheffield Corporation Act 1919 to acquire the site for the building of the Hall and the architect was chosen in August 1920. The architect was E. Vincent Harris (1876-1971), who was a well respected municipal architect. He was one of the last exponents of the classical revival style.
As well as Sheffield City Hall, Harris was responsible for government offices between Whitehall and the Embankment (in 1914 Harris won the competition for the Board of Trade building, Whitehall, which was only completed to his altered design in 1961), Leeds Civic Hall, Manchester Central Library and the neighbouring Town Hall Extension, the Bristol Council House, and the County Halls of Glamorgan, Surrey, Somerset and Nottinghamshire. He designed a number of schools as well as residential housing...
Sheffield City Hall Entrance
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| THE BEATLES AT SHEFFIELD CITY HALL | |
 THE Beatles appeared on a total of six pop package tours of the UK between the beginning of February 1963 and their final one in December 1965... and they played in Sheffield on every one.
They appeared here at the City Hall five times.
They first took the stage here on Saturday, March 2, 1963. They weren’t headliners yet. Top of the bill was Helen Shapiro, but The Beatles were rivalling her for attention as Please Please Me, their second single, raced up the charts.The song was one of four numbers belted out by the Fabs that night - the other three being Chains and A Taste Of Honey from their debut LP and the song Keep Your Hands Off My Baby, which they recorded only for BBC radio...
A Tribute to the The Beatles
October 2005
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