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The building remained the meeting place for Pontefract Borough Council but ceased to be the local seat of Government when the enlarged Wakefield Metropolitan District Council was formed in 1974. [5] The building was the subject of an extensive restoration programme in 1996.
Recent production credits include On the Ropes at the Park Theatre in 2023, and You Are Going to Die at Southwark Playhouse in 2024. Under the pseudonym of Daniel O'Brien he is a prolific writer of work for the stage and his pantomime scripts have been performed annually in a number of theatres notably at The Riverfront Arts Centre in Newport ...
Wakefield, [2] also known as the City of Wakefield, is a local government district with city status and a metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. Wakefield, the largest settlement, is the administrative centre of the district. The population of the City of Wakefield at the 2011 Census was 325,837. [3]
Wakefield has good access to the motorway system, with the intersection of the M1 and M62 motorways, junctions 42/29, lying to the north west, whilst the M1 to the west is accessed at junctions 39, 40 and 41. The A1(M) is to the east of the district. Wakefield is crossed by the A61, A638, and A642 roads and is the starting point of the A636 and ...
It was designed in 1894 as the Wakefield Opera House, by theatre architect Frank Matcham, and was built for a price of £13,000. [2] The Theatre Royal Wakefield is the smallest remaining of Matcham's theatres. [3] In the 1920s the theatre had to compete against cinemas and in the summer live shows were replaced by films.
February is officially here, which means we're crawling closer and closer to spring as the days go by. If you're already excited to break out boho-inspired dresses, linen tops and light sweaters ...
There were 22 of the 63 seats on Wakefield council up for election, being the usual third of the council plus a by-election in Normanton ward. Labour won 21 of the 22 seats available, maintaining their overall control on the council which they have held since the modern district's formation in 1974.
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