[1] The construction of this row of terraced houses on the west side of the Promenade,[a] which was developed by Samuel Harward, began in 1823.

[3] A statue of a soldier with arms reversed commemorating local service personnel who died in the Second Boer War was unveiled by General Sir Ian Hamilton at the northern end of the Long Garden on 17 July 1907.

[6] Meanwhile, a statue of the locally-born polar explorer, Edward Wilson, by Captain Robert Scott's widow, Kathleen Scott, was unveiled by the explorer Sir Clements Markham at the southern end of the Long Garden on 9 July 1914.

[7][8][9] After the Second World War additional names of people who had died in the service of their country were added to the memorial.

[10] Works of art in the Municipal Offices include a portrait by Sir Oswald Birley of General Lord Ismay, who was chief of staff to Winston Churchill during the Second World War and who had lived at Wormington Grange near Stanton, Gloucestershire.