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The town hall was the meeting place of Huddersfield Municipal Borough which secured county borough status in 1889. [9] In April 1889 the first annual "Mrs Sunderland Music Festival" took place at Huddersfield Town Hall with the retired soprano Susan Sunderland presenting the prizes to the winners.
Huddersfield Town Hall is a municipal building in the town: it seats up to 1,200 people and hosts events ranging from classical to comedy and from choral to community events. [ 51 ] The colonnaded Huddersfield railway station in St George's Square was once described as 'a stately home with trains in it', and by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner as "one of ...
Notable fans over the years have included Prime Minister Harold Wilson, who was born in the town, [128] and actor Sir Patrick Stewart, who became president of the Huddersfield Town Academy in 2010. [129] [130] Huddersfield Town's main rivals are considered to be West Yorkshire clubs Bradford City and Leeds United.
The HD postcode area, also known as the Huddersfield postcode area, [2] is a group of nine postcode districts in England, within three post towns. These cover southern West Yorkshire , including Huddersfield and Holmfirth in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees , and Brighouse in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale .
The listed buildings in Huddersfield are arranged by wards as follows: Listed buildings in Huddersfield (Ashbrow Ward) Listed buildings in Huddersfield (Dalton Ward) Listed buildings in Huddersfield (Greenhead Ward) Listed buildings in Huddersfield (Lindley Ward) Listed buildings in Huddersfield (Newsome Ward - central area)
Huddersfield and the rural areas to the south have HD postcodes, Birkenshaw, Cleckheaton and Gomersal have BD postcodes, and the rest of the Heavy Woollen area has WF postcodes. Similarly the district is split between several telephone dialling codes, with most residents in the 01484 (Huddersfield), 01274 (Bradford) and 01924 (Wakefield) codes.
The oldest town hall, which was built as a chapel for pilgrims, is Dover Town Hall, thought to have been completed in around 1203, [2] while the oldest purpose-built town hall is Bury St Edmunds Guildhall, which dates back to around 1220. [3] The tallest town hall is Manchester Town Hall with a clock tower which rises to 280 feet (85 m). [4]
Newsome is a ward of Huddersfield in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England. It contains over 430 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, 16 are at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The ward is large, and contains the ...