Ashton Town Hall

Ashton Town Hall is a public building on Katherine Street in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, England.

[1] The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with seven bays facing onto Katherine Street; the central section of five bays featured three round headed openings on the ground floor; there were sash windows on the first floor and four full-height Corinthian order columns supporting an entablature bearing the words "Erected AD MDCCCXL" (Erected 1840).

[1] Extended to the west in a similar style in 1878 by William Young,[1] the hall was intended to provide areas for administrative purposes and public functions.

[5] The vacant building became the home of the Museum of the Manchester Regiment, which had previously been based at Ladysmith Barracks, in 1987.

[7] In 2002 two Turkish guns, which had been captured by the 2nd Battalion, the Royal Welch Fusiliers serving as part of the Cretan International Force at Candia in Crete in 1897 in the aftermath of the Greco-Turkish War,[8] were moved from Hightown Barracks in Wrexham and installed outside the town hall to replace the Russian Guns.