[2][3] In this context, civic leaders decided to procure a dedicated town hall: the site they selected had been open land on the north side of Market Street just south of Glebe Mill.

[6] The design involved an asymmetrical main frontage with eleven bays facing onto Market Street; the central part of the left-hand section, which slightly projected forward, featured a porch with a pair of Ionic order columns supporting an entablature with a date stone and a carved cornice; there was a casement window on the first floor and an open pediment containing an oculus above.

[6] A plaque to commemorate the lives of some of the 344 men and boys who had died in the Pretoria Pit disaster was commissioned by the Bolton & District Cricket Association and fixed at the south west corner of the town hall following the tragedy which took place on 21 December 1910.

[1] A plaque to commemorate the life of the locally-born actor, Robert Shaw, was unveiled by the mayor, Councillor Brian Clare, outside the town hall on 3 August 1996.

[12] However, although the building was fully vacated in March 2020, Bolton Council announced in June 2020 that the works would not proceed until wider plans for the regeneration of the town centre had been considered and approved.