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Conceived in 1916 as a memorial to the Sheffield dead of the Great War, the building that dominates Barker's Pool ended up carrying a different name by the time it opened. E. Vincent Harris won the design competition in 1920, but economic hardship delayed the project for almost a decade; the foundation stone was finally laid in 1929 and the doors opened on 22 September 1932. After years of argument over what it should be called, the complex became Sheffield City Hall, with the smaller hall at th...