[2] In the late 1830s the town clerk relocated to the assembly rooms in Sudley Road and, in 1882, the Jubilee School in the High Street was converted for municipal use.

[3] In 1929 the council decided to build a dedicated town hall: the site selected had formed part of the grounds of a convalescent home.

[5] The town hall was designed by Charles Cowles-Voysey in the Neo-Georgian style, built in yellow brick with stone dressings by a local contractor, H. W. Seymour, and officially opened by Mrs Eleanor Sacre on 11 October 1930.

[6] A war memorial, which had been designed by William Tillott Barlow and unveiled by Major-General Sir John Frederick Daniell, late of the Royal Marine Light Infantry, in Waterloo Square on 11 November 1921, was relocated to the area in front of the town hall in time for its opening,[7] and a Royal Warrant issued by King George V allowing the town to use the suffix "Regis" in honour of his residence in the town during his convalescence in late 1928 was installed in the council chamber.

[8] The building was used as a surface air raid shelter during the Second World War[2] and the assembly hall hosted a variety of performers in the post-war years, including the singer-songwriter, David Bowie, on 10 June 1967.