Erith Town Hall

Erith Town hall is a municipal building in Walnut Tree Road, Erith, London.

Erith Town Hall
Erith Town Hall
LocationErith
Coordinates51.4808°N 0.1779°E / 51.4808; 0.1779
Built1932
ArchitectHarold Hind
Architectural style(s)Italian Renaisance style
Shown in Bexley

History

The town hall was commissioned to replace the aging facilities at Walnut Tree House.[1] The new building, which was designed by Harold Hind, the council surveyor, in the Italian Renaisance style,[2] was opened on 2 June 1932.[3] It was established as the offices of Erith Urban District Council and became the headquarters of the Municipal Borough of Erith when the area was awarded municipal borough status in 1938.[4]

It was initially the home of the enlarged London Borough of Bexley when it was formed in 1965[5] but the new council only used Erith Town Hall briefly chosing instead to move to new Civic Offices on the south side of the Broadway in Bexleyheath in 1980.[6] Erith Town Hall remains in use as the council tax services department of the London Borough of Bexley.[7]

References
  1. "Origins of Street and place names" (PDF). Retrieved 2 May 2020.
  2. "Opening of the Town Hall", Erith Observer, 10 June 1932
  3. "Proposed addition to the list". London Borough of Bexley. Retrieved 2 May 2020.
  4. "Kent's New Borough". Dover Express. British Newspaper Archive. 30 September 1938. Retrieved 21 July 2014.
  5. "Local Government Act 1963". Legislation.gov.uk. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
  6. "Oak House, Bexleyheath" (PDF). London Borough of Bexley. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
  7. "Erith Town Hall partially evacuated over suspicious package". Bexley Times. 25 November 2019. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
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