[1] The building was commissioned and endowed for future maintenance by the politician, Sir John Stirling Maxwell of Pollok House as a gift for the people of Pollokshaws.

[2] The site he selected in Pollokshaws Road had formed part of the Old Pollok Estate, which had been home to the Maxwell family for over 700 years.

[3] The burgh hall was designed by Robert Rowand Anderson in the Scottish Renaissance style[2] and was officially opened by Maxwell on 7 December 1898.

[4] After functioning as a community centre for Glasgow Corporation and then, from 1975, for Strathclyde Regional Council, it was deemed surplus to requirements in the late 1990s and the management of the building was transferred to the Pollokshaws Burgh Hall Trust in October 2000.

[9] The Scottish entertainer, Gordon Cree, who appeared to have developed a special interest in the Wurlitzer, performed on it at a concert in April 2009.