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About the new tag:
The relief in the picture is older than the building around it and was reused in the new building because they shared the same basic purpose, although the people in the new building may have been less shabbily dressed.
Both the old and new were built by the same family, who made their money from making a good thing go bad (to stop good things going bad).
The man who founded the new building was also a footballer and a poet. As a footballer, his most famous match was played just half a mile away from this tag (at a sporting venue still famous but not for football) . One of his poems is still regularly read - by potentially very dangerous people.
Like one of my other recent tags, the new building is now home to people who aspire to not being dangerous.