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Clifford Strange

Wembley Park HA9 9LY

One of a number of town halls built in suburban borough centres in the interwar years. This slightly austere brick building sits on a sloping site on Forty Lane overlooking the former Empire Exhibition site. Clifford Strange won the competition to design an administrative building for Wembley Urban District Council with a Scandinavian-influenced building that includes offices, a library and an assembly chamber. Despite the sober exterior, the interior features Botticino marble flooring and staircase railings of silver bronze. In 2013 Brent Council sold the building to an international school and moved their offices to a new building on the former exhibition site.