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===Town Hall=== [[File:Reigate Town Hall - geograph.org.uk - 630757.jpg|thumb|Town Hall, Castlefield Road]] {{main|Reigate Town Hall}} The current town hall was completed in 1901 to replace the old town hall in the High Street. It was designed by Macintosh and Newman in the [[Arts and Crafts movement|Arts and Crafts style]]<ref name=new_town_hall/> and was originally known as the Municipal Buildings.<ref>{{harvnb|Hooper|1979|pp=188β189}}</ref> On opening, it also housed the police station and courts, but the police moved to new premises in Reigate Road in 1943<ref>{{cite web|url=https://british-police-history.uk/f/surrey-joint|title=Surrey Joint Police Force 1943-1947|publisher=British Police History|access-date=12 April 2021|archive-date=7 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210307083911/https://british-police-history.uk/f/surrey-joint/|url-status=live}}</ref> and the courts service vacated the building in the early 1970s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/history-from-police-archives/RB1/Pt3/pt3Reigate70s.html|title=Policing Change 1951-1975|publisher=Open University|access-date=12 April 2021|archive-date=29 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200929005946/https://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/history-from-police-archives/RB1/Pt3/pt3Reigate70s.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The town hall has been the headquarters of Reigate and Banstead Borough Council, since its inception on 1 April 1974.<ref name=R&B_Guide/>
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