Initially the local Liberal Party Club, the town hall went on to become the meeting place of Tyldesley Urban District Council.

[1][2] The Liberal Party building, which was designed in the Victorian style, was built in red brick and was officially opened by the local mill owner and future member of parliament, Caleb Wright, on 6 January 1881.

[4] Meanwhile, the local health board had established its offices in Lower Elliott Street, where it had also erected a fire station and a works depot;[5] however, civic leaders decided that they needed more substantial premises after the area became an urban district in 1894.

[3] The council also acquired a fine portrait of Sir Thomas Tyldesley, a Royalist commander who served during the English Civil War, and arranged for it to be installed inside the building.

[7] King George VI and Queen Elizabeth drove past the waving crowds on the steps of the town hall on 18 May 1938.