JUDGE AND HIS LODGINGS
) ’VILEST VICTORIANISM.” ! LONDON, .January ■”.. I Somerset County Council at their ! quarterly meeting next week will havo laid before them a scheme for providing the Judges on circuit at ( Ta it nt mt, with more comfortable lotlgjings while the Assize is sitting. I ’l'm.' Judges have always been 'ltom-cd at Taunton in a wing <»f the Shire Hall, life county building where the Assize is held. Many of the pre-sent-day Judges have grumbled about ■ the. discomfort of the lodgings, ami Mr Justice Mackinnon. after a recent stay in them, penned the following acid comment in the visitors' book. "In a prize competition for the vil1 < st achievement of Victorian architecture this building would be an easy winner. That the cleanliness nroducj.d by tin- caretakers ami the brightness of the Howers provided by the
High Sheriff maki s life tolerable, where otherwise every prospect displeases. is a tribute to them.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 19 February 1937, Page 10
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