Erith Town Hall
Erith Town hall is a municipal building in Walnut Tree Road, Erith, London.History
The town hall was commissioned to replace the aging facilities at Walnut Tree House. The new building, which was designed by Harold Hind, the council surveyor, in the Italian Renaisance style, was opened on 2 June 1932. 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.
It was initially the home of the enlarged London Borough of Bexley when it was formed in 1965 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. Erith Town Hall remains in use as the council tax services department of the London Borough of Bexley.
