Middlesbrough Town Hall is a municipal facility located in Albert Road in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England. It is a Grade II* listed building.

Venue: Middlesbrough Town Hall
Town: Middlesbrough, GB

Middlesbrough Town Hall is a municipal facility located in Albert Road in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England. It is a Grade II* listed building. The current building was commissioned to replace an Old Town Hall in the Market Place in the St Hilda's part of the town. After population growth, largely associated with the steel industry, Middlesbrough became a municipal borough in 1853 and civic leaders decided to procure a new town hall on open land in a developing area to the south of the Middlesbrough branch of the Stockton and Darlington Railway. The foundation stone for the new building was laid in 1883. It was designed by George Gordon Hoskins of Darlington and built at a cost of £130,000. The official opening was performed by the then Prince and Princess of Wales (later King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) on 23 January 1889. The clock in the tower was manufactured by R. Richardson (of Sussex Street, Middlesbrough); it was set going by the Princess of Wales on the day of the official opening. The bells (one to strike the hours and four to chime the quarters) were by Taylor of Loughborough. Queen Elizabeth II, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, visited the town hall on 4 June 1956. Other visitors included the singer, David Bowie, who performed in the hall on 8 June 1972, and the heavy metal band, Iron Maiden, who performed at the town hall in 1980 and again in 1981. The town hall also accommodated the local courtroom: the lack of dedicated judicial facilities in the town was temporarily resolved when a new law courts building (now referred to as Middlesbrough Magistrates' Court) was opened in Victoria Square in 1973. From 1 April 1974 to 1 April 1996 the Town Hall also served as the meeting place of Cleveland County Council. A multimillion-pound plan to transform the town hall into a top class cultural and heritage venue was announced by Middlesbrough Council in 2015. Plans include an upmarket bar, coffee shop or restaurant with a glass atrium, a new multi