The hall, tucked away in Shrewsbury town centre, has been transformed.
"This beautiful building has been hidden away, waiting to be re-discovered and re-used, we hope she is a sleeping giant."Boss Jack Brooks outside the new Pieces for Places shop in Shrewsbury
After her death in 1898 it became Wightman Working Man’s hall before finding use as a pay office for the army in 1915 during the First World War and an army social club before it became the Shrewsbury Repertory Theatre in the 1940s. Renovations have included sandblasting the walls to unearth the original decorative brickwork, replacing the rotten floor, creating a Shrewsbury inspired Tudor gallery, re-wiring, painting and tiling to name just a few of the tasks undertaken to sympathetically revitalise the building.Jack has spent the last couple of years restoring the hall“At some point the original entrance into the hall got knocked down and swallowed by a newer building, essentially isolating the hall from Princess street.
"An apostle of temperance, a succourer of many. A helper of the church and the friend of the poor. She was loving and beloved, holy and honourable and richly endowed with that Godly wisdom which is full of mercy and of good fruits.A tribute to Julia Wightman stands in the shopPieces for Places' Shrewsbury branch is very much in-keeping with its primary store; a renovated Grade II-listed Methodist Chapel in Barmouth, North Wales, where the company has operated since 2014.
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