However, due to lack of funding the Board moved to the North Pine (Petrie) School of Arts in 1893, and then briefly to the Masonic Hall at Redcliffe in May 1901 and a cottage belonging to Thomas Snook.

[1] During the 1930s the Town Council instigated many improvements in Redcliffe, developing the area as an attractive sea-side resort.

The Council proceeded with major redevelopment of seaside areas, providing public facilities and undertaking improvement work.

[1] The new chambers were designed by Sidney William Prior who arrived in Australia from England in 1911 and studied construction and drawing at the Brisbane Central Technical College in 1913 before serving in the First World War.

A large proportion of Prior's work was domestic though he designed Hesketh House in Elizabeth Street, additions to the Jennings Rubber Company Building in Fortitude Valley and the Bowen Hills Davies Park Speedway.

[1] The new building was opened on 3 December 1941 by the Minister for Home Affairs, the Hon Edward Michael (Ned) Hanlon.

[1] The former Redcliffe Town Council Chambers is a symmetrical single-storeyed white rendered masonry building with a two-storeyed entrance section.

[1] The former Redcliffe Town Council Chambers was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 13 January 1995 having satisfied the following criteria.

The Shire Hall was constructed during a time of development at Redcliffe and provides evidence of this key period of growth.