[4] The building was built by John Greenwood Limited at a cost, excluding furnishings, of £40,000[5] and it was formally opened by the Prince and Princess of Wales on 29 April 1908.

[1] In 1964 a plaque was unveiled at the town hall to commemorate the life of Violette Szabo GC, a member of the Special Operations Executive, who had been brought up in Brixton before serving in the Second World War.

[8] In June 1998 the former mayor of Southwark, Sam King, led the 50th anniversary celebrations of the docking of the cruise ship HMT Empire Windrush at the Port of Tilbury; a plaque was erected in the town hall to commemorate the event.

[9] As part of a wider regeneration scheme, which included the construction of new residential units and offices,[10] the town hall was the subject of a programme of refurbishment works which were undertaken by Morgan Sindall at a cost of £25 million and completed in 2018.

[11] As part of the scheme, most of the council's offices were consolidated into a new building called Lambeth Civic Centre at 6 Brixton Hill, a short distance south of the town hall, which opened in March 2018.