[1] Shortly after it had been created in 1857,[2] the local board of health established itself in some offices on the east side of King Street in an area designated the Market Place.

[3] Population growth associated with the increasing number of local cotton mills led to the area becoming an urban district in 1894 and a municipal borough in 1899.

[4] In this context civic leaders decided to demolish the existing offices and to erect a town hall slightly further back from where they had been.

[8] After an extensive programme of refurbishment works costing £3 million had been completed in January 2005,[9] the building re-opened as the main registry office for Tameside.

[10] A statue designed and made by Escar UK Bronze depicting the local soldier, Lieutenant Colonel Robert Duckenfield, who commanded Parliamentarian forces during the English Civil War, was unveiled outside the building in April 2010.