[1] The Myrtle Grove estate dates back to the mid-18th century when it consisted of a house known as "Spring Head", a farm and an old Quaker meeting-house.

[2] In 1767, Dr Johnson Atkinson purchased the estate, demolished the existing buildings and commissioned the current mansion which was designed in the Georgian style, built in ashlar stone and completed in around 1770.

[1] The building, which also featured rusticated quoins and a high hip roof finished in Westmorland slate, was flanked by a stable block and by a coach house.

[6] After significant population growth, largely associated with the worsted yarn industry, the area became an urban district with the old mechanics institute as its town hall in 1895.

[8] The council progressively moved its staff into Myrtle Grove between 1923 and 1926, at which point the house became Bingley Town Hall.