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A monochrome drawing shows a classical building with columns beside a street with figures, a rider, and Ely Cathedral behind.

Shire Hall Ely

Shire Hall, Ely

History of Shire Hall

Built in 1820, by the 1880s one wing housed the Armoury and orderly room of ‘H’ Company. 3rd Volunteer battalion of the Suffolk Regiment, whilst the other housed the city’s police station.

See Mike Osborne, Defending Cambridgeshire.

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