With plans being unveiled (again!) for the redevelopment of the former Council Offices site in Weymouth, it is perhaps time to look at what was on the site in the 1950s before the mass demolition of buildings on North Quay and in High Street. Many properties in Chapelhay had been damaged beyond economic repair in the air raids of 1940/41, but some properties in High Street had suffered from bomb blast, although much was largely structurally intact. There was little or no damage to properties in North Quay. The Council had prepared a somewhat grandiose, optimistic scheme in 1948 to cover Chapelhay and High Street, which would include municipal offices and conference hall, police station, courts, museum and library, government offices, aquarium, shops, boathouses, flats and new houses.