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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 ...
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.
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 .
Huddersfield Town Association Football Club is a professional association football club based in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. They compete in EFL League One , the third level of the English football league system .
The borough was formed on 1 April 1974 by the provisions of the Local Government Act 1972 as part of a reform of local government in England.Eleven former local government districts were merged: the county boroughs of Huddersfield and Dewsbury, the municipal boroughs of Batley and Spenborough and the urban districts of Colne Valley, Denby Dale, Heckmondwike, Holmfirth, Kirkburton, Meltham and ...
Fartown is a district of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England that starts 0.6 miles (1 km) north of the town centre. Fartown runs for approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) either side of the A641 main Huddersfield to Bradford Road. The district area stretches from the top of Woodhouse Hill to the Halifax Old Road with a population of 4,735 according ...
However, the town’s western suburbs such as Golcar and the middle-class suburb of Lindley are actually in the neighbouring Colne Valley constituency. Apart from four years tenure as MP by Geoffrey Dickens for Huddersfield West (1979–1983), the area (including its divided halves for the 33 years to 1983) has returned a Labour Party MP since ...
Huddersfield Town played their 1,554th and final League game at the Leeds Road ground on 30 April 1994, beating Blackpool 2–1, watched by a near capacity crowd of 16,195. [2] Town's oldest-surviving ex-player, Joe Walter, was guest of honour at the match. [2] The ground was demolished soon afterwards and the site was redeveloped as a retail park.