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The council generally meets at the Town Hall on Ramsden Street in Huddersfield, which had been built in 1881 for the old Huddersfield Borough Council. [42] The council's main offices are at the Civic Centre, a complex of buildings lying to the west of the town hall between Albion Street and Market Street.
These include the Mirfield-born actor ("life-long" Huddersfield Town F.C. supporter [73] and Chancellor of Huddersfield University from 2004 to 2015 [74] [75]), Patrick Stewart; the dancer, entertainer and TV presenter Roy Castle, who was born in Scholes; [76] [77] the York-born Olympic gold medal-winning swimmer, Anita Lonsbrough; [78] [79 ...
By the first years of the 20th century, the Ramsden family found themselves with serious debts. One account suggests that they owed £800,000 to their bankers. Another recounts an approach made to a town councillor by a member of the Rothschild family, during a trade mission to Austria as early as 1894, suggesting the council might buy the estate.
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 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.
Dalton is a suburb of Huddersfield, in the Kirklees district, in West Yorkshire in England, approximately one mile east of the town centre between Moldgreen, Rawthorpe and Kirkheaton. Located in a small valley it is mostly housing, with a small number of engineering firms to the north-west, surrounded by farmland used in the production of milk.
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, 17 are at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The ward is large, and contains the ...
It begins 1 mile (1.6 km) to the south west of Huddersfield town centre. Crosland Moor begins at the junction of the Manchester Road A62 and Blackmoorfoot Road the main thoroughfare. The area rises up the hillside to overlook the areas of Milnsbridge and Golcar in the Colne Valley. The name is derived from the local landowners the Crosland ...