For more than 60 years, County Hall has served as the home of Durham County Council. Ahead of its demolition, politicians and staff shared their memories of the big block on the hilltop.
Brutalist eyesore or brilliant architecture?
Whatever their thoughts on the artistic merits of Durham’s County Hall, more than 100 ex-employees, councillors and members of the public felt moved enough at the prospect of its demise to attend an exhibition celebrating its history.
“It is the end of an era,” says Helen Moss, who attended the display in the hall’s large exhibition space with her longtime friend and colleague Sharon Dunning.
Both began working here when they were teenagers in the 1980s and spent decades navigating the oak and sapele-panelled meetings rooms and concrete corridors.