Wallsend Town Hall

After Wallsend became incorporated as a municipal borough in 1901, the new civic leaders initially met at the masonic hall in Station Road in Wallsend which had been completed in 1893. After finding this arrangement inadequate, civic leaders decided to procure dedicated municipal buildings: the site they selected was open land on the south side of High Street East. The foundation stone for the new building was laid by the mayor, William Boyd, in 1907. Queen Elizabeth II, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, visited the town hall and waved to the crowd from the balcony on 29 October 1954. The town hall continued to serve as the headquarters of Wallsend Borough Council and became the local…