[2] In this context civic leaders decided to procure a council house: the site selected was open land owned by Councillor Henry Kelly.

[3][4] The new building was designed by Herbert Scaping in the Baroque style, built in red brick with stone dressings by Henry Marrows and was opened in 1905.

[5] Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester visited the building, as part of the celebrations to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the founding of the Royal Lincolnshire Regiment, on 8 September 1985.

[7] During the 1980s the building became known as the "Cleethorpes Town Hall": however, it ceased to be the local seat of government when North East Lincolnshire Council became the unitary authority, with its offices in Grimsby, in 1996.

[8] The Prime Minister, David Cameron, accompanied by the Duke of Kent, visited the town hall on armed forces day in June 2016.