The first town hall was a
medieval structure in Market Street which had vaults under the Butter Market. In the late 17th century the local
member of parliament,
Thomas Guy, who had already funded some local alms-houses decided to finance a new town hall for the town on the same site. The building was extended eastward with two extra extra rooms in 1771 and a more substantial extension to the east was completed in 1811. The local member of parliament and future
Prime Minister,
Sir Robert Peel, during campaigning the forthcoming
general election, read his
manifesto to the local people at the town hall in December 1834. The area became a
municipal borough with the town hall as it headquarters in 1836. In 1845, a substantial rebuilding of the structure took place. A horse-drawn fire engine was installed in the arcaded area on the ground floor in 1880 New assembly rooms and a library were built on the land behind the White House the following year. Council meetings continued to be held at the town hall, where the main room on the first floor was converted for use as a council chamber in 1934. In 1980 the council sold the White House and bought Burlington House in Lichfield Street, a tower block which had been built in 1960. Burlington House was converted to become both the council's offices and main meeting place, opening in May 1981, when it was renamed "Marmion House", after the local
Marmion family who were the owners of Tamworth Castle from c.1100 to 1294. The town hall continued to be used for occasional meetings of the council until 2022, when the council transferred most council and committee meetings back to the town hall as part of plans to dispose of Marmion House. ==See also==