Southport Town Hall & Market

SOUTHPORT NEW TOWN HALL AND MARKETS. The Corporation of Southport have selected, from the designs submitted in competition for the New Town Hall and Public Markets, for the first prize a design submitted by Messrs. Maxwell & Tuke, of Bury, and for the second one sent by Messrs. Mellor & Sutton, of Southport. There were seventeen competitors. [Building News 5 January 1872 page 20] Correction -  The second premium in this was awarded to Messrs Mellor & Sutton, Southport, and W H. Littlewood, Manchester, instead of Mellor & Sutton, as intimated last week. [Building News 12 January 1872 page 34]