[2] It was designed with paired Corinthian pilasters for the height of the upper storey, above which a cornice surmounted by acroteria was placed.

[1] The town hall became the headquarters of the new borough of Burslem in 1878[4] but it ceased to be the local seat of government when the Federation of Stoke-on-Trent was formed in March 1910.

[1] It was used for scenes in the film The Card starring Alec Guinness in 1952,[7] and although there were proposals to demolish it in the 1960s,[8] it survived and had become a recreation centre by the 1990s.

The exhibition attracted fewer visitors than anticipated, and after Stoke-on-Trent City Council withdrew funding for day-to-day running, it closed in March 2011.

[12] The building remained empty until 2015, when the modern extension built as part of the Ceramica exhibition was demolished and the Old Town Hall was converted into a sixth form college of Haywood Academy, a project sponsored by Steelite International.