[2] Originally the plan was to build the new hall next to the Royal Pump Rooms and the adjacent gardens; however the site eventually chosen was on The Parade next to the Regent Hotel.
The statue, designed by Albert Toft, was erected in 1902 and cost £1,500 to create, and was allegedly moved slightly by a German bomb on 14 November 1940 during The Blitz.
[5] After defeating Sugar Ray Robinson to win the world middleweight boxing title championship on 10 July 1951, the locally-born boxer, Randolph Turpin, waived to the crowd from the town hall balcony.
[6] The town hall was the headquarters the municipal borough of Leamington[7] but ceased to be local seat of government on the formation of Warwick District in 1974.
[9] The 44 metres (144 ft) tall clock tower,[1] illuminated at night, has been home to a breeding pair of Peregrine Falcons and their chicks every summer since 2017.