[3] In this context civic leaders decided to procure new public offices: the site they chose formed part of the garden of an adjacent residential property.

[4] The new building was designed by Thomas Muirhead in the Victorian style, built in red brick with ashlar stone dressings and was officially opened by Councillor Louis Stott on 22 January 1902.

[3] Lytham Urban District Council did not have a permanent headquarters at that time and so the new civic leaders decided to acquire the Southdown Hydro Hotel which was conveniently located on the South Promenade just to the rear of the public offices.

[6] The old public offices were then relegated to the role of annex to the new Lytham St Annes Town Hall,[7] which itself became the local seat of government for the enlarged Fylde District Council in 1974.

[10] A blue plaque, recording the history of the old public offices, was paid for by St Annes-on-the-Sea Town Council and unveiled by Stott's grandson, Richard Stanley, on the front of the building in January 2016.