It provides a spacious Council Chamber, Sessions Court (held in the Prince's Hall), and the Borough Magistrates' Court, together with offices for the Town Clerk, Borough Engineer, Borough Treasurer and Rates Department, Water Engineer, Chief Constable, Medical Officer of Health and the Valuation Officer. In addition, provision is made for the Recorder, the Magistrates' Clerk, and witnesses. There are also two Committee Rooms, Members' Room, Mayor’s Parlour, and a large vestibule. The Police and Fire Station are attached, and underneath the Town Hall there are a number of Police Cells.

The Municipal Art Gallery.

The Municipal Art Gallery and Museum in Lichfield Street was erected in 1884 at a cost of over £9,000 and presented to the town by the late Philip Horsman, Esq., who also bequeathed his valuable collection of pictures which are now hung in the Gallery.

Contained in the buildings are seven galleries devoted to the display of paintings, sculpture, artistic craftwork, pottery, local antiquities, etc.

For the study and appreciation of British art of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Wolverhampton Art Gallery offers exceptional opportunities. Romney, Gainsborough, Lawrence, Landseer, Etty, Birket Foster, "Old" Crome, and others are well represented. There are eight pictures by Sidney Cooper, that inspired painter of domestic animals, and there are several examples by David Cox, whose landscapes are truly wonderful. Curator- A. A. Cooper, A.S.A.M.

The Gallery is open to the public:-
January and February                     10am. to 4pm.
March to October                          10am. to 5pm.
November to December                 10am. to 4pm.
Sundays (throughout the year)          2pm. to 4pm.
Monday Evenings                            7pm. to 9pm.
Closed Good Friday and Christmas Day

The Municipal Baths.

The present establishment situated in Bath Avenue, was opened to the public on November 4th, 1909 and comprises of two swimming baths, 28 private baths, two reception rooms, boiler house, laundry, ante room and kitchen.

All that is best in modem design has been incorporated in the buildings; the floors are concrete, and finished with Terrazzo marble, and the buildings are lit and ventilated by lantern lights. The heating of these baths is by hot water from calorifiers in the basement.

A handbook is published by the committee which will be found most useful to visitors to the baths.

The Municipal Assembly Hall.

The buildings, consisting of the north and south assembly halls, reception rooms, cloak rooms, ante room, kitchen, etc., have been erected by the Corporation at a considerable cost.

The south assembly hall has a floor space of 695 square yards, and will seat approximately 1,000 people, in addition the recently constructed gallery will also accommodate a large number of people. The special spring floor is admirable for dances and balls.

The north assembly hall has a floor space of 554 square yards, and has a seating capacity for approximately 1,000 people. It is suitable for banquets, luncheons, bazaars, social gatherings, suppers, etc. So excellent are the acoustic properties of both halls that they have been found peculiarly suitable for lectures, concerts, public meetings, etc.

An aerial view of West Park.

With so many vast works engaged in both the light and  heavy trades, open space and wide-flung recreation grounds and parks are a necessity to public health. Wolverhampton is, fortunately, richly dowered in this respect.

The St. Peter's Close grounds are particularly attractive, and St. George's Churchyard is another open space much appreciated by residents. It may be remarked here that the town has quite a number of tree-shaded roads of considerable width in its residential districts; in fact, it almost requires an effort of imagination to realise that these are parts of the big bustling borough pulsating elsewhere with life and energy.

West Park, opened on Whit Monday in 1881, covering about fifty acres, and was originally the Wolverhampton race course. It has four main entrances from Bath Road, Newhampton Road, Albert Road and Connaught Road.

A Floral Fete, one of the largest in the country, is held in it annually, from the proceeds of which a very handsome conservatory was added. The park contains botanical grounds, a well-appointed gymnasium, a bowling green, cricket grounds, two lakes covering about eight acres of the land, and a charming dell with an ornamental waterfall. It has also a tea chalet and a bandstand (the latter of which will accommodate about sixty performers), a clock, and other accessories.

Central Flower Beds, West Park.

Central Libraries.

The commodious Central Libraries, built to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria, occupy the site of the old Theatre Royal, Cleveland Road and Garrick Street, and were, opened to the public in 1902. They contain reference and lending libraries, a newspaper room, a commercial reference library and reading room, children's library and reading room and teachers' section. The approximate annual attendance in the reading room is 800,000.

The lending department, which contains upwards of 36,000 volumes, is open daily from 9am. to 8pm. except on Fridays, when the library is closed. During the summer months, the lending department closes at 7pm. on Mondays and Thursdays. The general reference library is open daily from 9am. to 9.30pm. and the magazine room and newspaper room from 9am. to 9.30pm.

There are three branch reading rooms, one in Horseley Fields, one in Evans Street, Whitmore Reans, and one in Springfields.

The borough chief librarian is Mr. William T. Beeston, F.L.A.

Technical College.

General and Technical Education.

Wolverhampton possesses excellent and up-to-date educational facilities. The Grammar School, founded and endowed in 1515 occupies a high position among the public schools of the country. In addition to a large number of well-equipped council elementary schools, there is a secondary school, a Girls' High School, evening continuation schools, and other branches of educational work.

An important adjunct to the educational institution is a new Technical College, erected in conjunction with, the county authorities. The new building replaces an old school of limited dimensions and capabilities. The engineering block of the new college was opened in May, 1926, by H.R.H. Princess Mary Viscountess Lascelles.

The Royal Hospital, Cleveland Road.

Healthy Wolverhampton

Many towns lie in a hollow, and have hills on one or more sides, the greater part of Wolverhampton on the other hand, has been built on an eminence. Breezes from any direction except an easterly or south-easterly one bring with them the pure atmosphere from the agricultural areas on the western side. Wolverhampton, therefore, and particularly the western and residential portion of it, suffers very little from the atmospheric pollution usually associated with industrial areas.

It would be manifestly unfair to consider the death and sickness rates of a town like this in conjunction with those of a seaside resort, but when a comparison is made with other industrial towns of about the same size the results are quite favourable to Wolverhampton. A similar comparison with the other industrial towns of Staffordshire over a ten-year period, gives an even better result, Wolverhampton having the second lowest death rate and infant mortality rate.

Although the high position of Wolverhampton has presented certain engineering difficulties in regard to the water supply and drainage, these have been successfully overcome, and it can confidently be stated that the sanitation, the scavenging and refuse disposal system of the town are most up-to-date and efficient.

The hospital provision, both voluntary and municipal is exceptionally good, and institutional treatment is available for any kind of disease or accident. The town council are making extraordinary efforts to improve the housing and environment of their citizens, and the newly-developed areas of the town are undoubtedly assisting in the growth of healthier and happier families.

Wolverhampton is making very rapid progress in the care of mothers and young children and the corporation's extensive scheme for maternity and child welfare is bearing fruit in the improved health of the rising generation.

Wolverhampton & Midland Counties Eye Infirmary.

District Nursing Association Maternity Home.