TO coincide with the first anniversary of the opening of The Iron Duke in the Old Town Hall a new book detailing the history of the building has been published.

The building, from its construction in 1833, has been the most prominent building in the town but until now no concerted attempt has been made to record its varied uses and owners.

This new book, compiled by the curator of Wellington Museum, Colin Spackman, contains a timeline of the building’s significant events, an A to Z of the people involved and transcriptions from a range of original sources that give a contemporary view of events.

If you want to know who paid for the building, when it was extended to its current size, why the local council was not allowed to buy it, what happened when it suffered a fire in the 1940s, who wanted to knock it down in the 1960s and much more then this is the book for you.

‘A History of The Old Town Hall – From Corn Market to Wetherspoon’s’, with 40 A4 pages, costs £3.50 and is available from Wellington Museum open 10am-4pm Monday to Friday and 10am-1pm on Saturday. The book is also available from reception at the Wellington Weekly News offices in High Street.

All profits from the sale of the book go to Wellington Museum Society.