[3] In the early 1930s, in the context of the increasing responsibilities of local authorities, civic leaders decided to procure a new civic building: the site they selected on the south side of Walsall Street had been occupied by a building known as the Old Hall which had been the home of Dr Richard Wilkes, who conducted tests to determine the medicinal properties of springs in the local area.

[2] It was designed in the Neo-Georgian style, built in red brick with stone facings at a cost of £11,749 and was officially opened by the wife of the Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire, the Countess of Harrowby, on 20 March 1935.

[2] The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with seven bays facing onto Walsall Street; the central section of three bays, which slightly projected forward and was stone faced, featured a doorway with a stained glass fanlight on the ground floor with an oriel window on the first floor flanked by full-height pilasters supporting a cornice and a balustrade containing a blank pedimented panel in the centre.

[1] The town hall continued to serve as the headquarters of the urban district for much of the 20th century[6] but ceased to be local seat of government when the area became part of the County Borough of Walsall in 1966.

[9] In December 2019, Walsall Council received a planning application to convert the offices in Bow Street, adjacent to the former fire station, from library storage use into residential accommodation.