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The rise and fall of the Derby Market hall

Derby put on an impressive show at the opening of its market hall in 1866.Derby Market Hall is spectacular. It has a vast roof of glass and wood, with iron supports. It looks a little like St Pancras Station in London, which is not a surprise—the engineer Rowland Mason Ordish worked on both. Derby Council proudly expresses the comparison the other way around. St Pancras, it says, “has a comparable splendour to the roof of Derby Market Hall”. what really contributing to the fall of Derby market ?

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