[2] The town hall was designed by James Glen Sivewright Gibson in the Baroque style,[3] built in sandstone ashlar, and was completed in 1903.

[2] The pipe organ, which commemorates the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria,[4] was made by the local firm of Nicholson & Lord and installed in 1908.

They were commissioned by the former local member of parliament, Joseph Leckie, "to commemorate the never to be forgotten valour of the South Staffordshire Regiments in the Great War 1914 - 1918" and completed in 1920.

[7] Rock musicians that performed at the Walsall Town Hall include Slade in 1966,[8] The Who in 1966,[9] and Robert Plant of Band of Joy (later of Led Zeppelin) in 1967.

[12] A memorial plaque to Walsall's three recipients of the Victoria Cross, John Henry Carless, James Thompson and Charles George Bonner, was unveiled there in 2009.