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Bumfitt is an artwork created for the Herd Project, an event to celebrate the artistic, cultural and historical heritage of Kirklees. Bumfitt is one of many works created for the event, the works range in size from around life size to this one which is around 10 feet high. Each sheep as well as being unique and created from different materials is also installed with a sound system playing pieces by local musicians and choirs. Bumfitt is apparently number 15 as used in Cumbria for counting sheep. By the way, if you’ve never heard of Kirklees (join the club!) it’s a large metropolitan area in the North of England and is pretty much unknown to anyone outside the area. herd-kirklees.co.uk/plan-your-visit/
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A Former Bank, The building dates from around 1913. A brilliant old picture of it here > huddersfield.exposed/archive/item/1617
Address: Market Street, Huddersfield HD1 2EW
This prefabricated shop dates from 1923. The frontage has a steel frame, bronze cladding and plenty of glass. In the 1920s, this would have been ultra-modern, and it remains an intriguing and attractive building today. It is currently occupied by the shop Bronx, which sells designer clothes for men.
Address: Westgate HouseWestgate, Huddersfield HD1 1NN
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A shot from the roof of the Victoria Tower taken in preparation for the Stone photography project.
This one was taken as a storm passed over the City and a couple of rainbows appeared.
Taken using a Phase One IQ180 with a 55m lens.
There is a blog post on what we are up to in the link, archives.blog.parliament.uk/2016/01/12/set-in-stone/
There is a blog post on what we are up to in the link, archives.blog.parliament.uk/2016/01/12/set-in-stone/
The Head of Steam is a wonderful pub and handily located onto the platform of Huddersfield station.
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The General Post Office on Northumberland Street in Huddersfield has a rich history. The first post office in Huddersfield was located in a yard off Oldgate. Around 1830, it moved to New Street, but as postal business grew, a larger facility was needed. In 1874, a new post office was built on Northumberland Street.
Architect: Charles Wilkinson
Year: 1914
Address- Northumberland St, Huddersfield HD1 1AA
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Address- Estate Bldg, 20 Westgate, Huddersfield HD1 1NU
The telephone boxes look like a set of dominoes ready to be pushed over. I have no idea why they are like that? You will see them better on another picture I will post and the angle they are...
The first post office in the town was situated in a yard off the present day Oldgate. Around 1830 a new office was opened in New Street but, as postal business increased in the town over the next forty years, this became inadequate and, in 1874, new and larger premises were erected on an empty plot of land on the north side of Northumberland Street.
This is the building now occupied by Messrs Dugdale Bros, and a Christian Bookshop. It was erected here in the face of some opposition from the Chamber of Commerce, who suggested building on the site of the then recently demolished Swan Yard in Kirkgate.
This, the Chamber thought, would be more convenient, being nearer to the business centre of the town. The proponents of the Northumberland Street site argued that the position of the railway station and the new buildings near to it would cause the town centre to shift northwards and, more importantly, their site was cheaper. Their argument won the day. As we now know the town remained centred on the Market Place, but the building in Northumberland Street served the town as a general post office until 1914 and, further, its position must have been considered satisfactory as its successor was built in the same area.
Address: Northumberland Street, Huddersfield, HD1 1AA
In my humble opinion, here is my list of my top coffee chains.
1. Tim Horton's
2. McDonald's (Australia)
3. Zarraffa’s
4. Costa
5. Starbucks
Incidently, here is the rich list
Starbucks – $32.25 billion
JDE Peet’s Coffee – $9 billion
PNRA (Panera Bread) – $6 billion
Tchibo – $3.8 billion
Luigi Lavazza S.p.A. (Lavazza) – $2.7 billion
Tim Hortons Inc. – $2.63 billion
McCafé – $2.42 billion
Strauss Group – $1.8 billion
Melitta Group – $1.7 billion
Dunkin’ Brands Group, Inc. – $1.25 billion
Sorry Nero, you never made the list, McDonald's coffee in Australia is so much better than the UK.... Don't understand why, then again McDonald's food in general seem to better in every country bar the UK. Zarraffa’s is an Oz coffee chain....
Address- 1-3 King St, Huddersfield HD1 2QD
Scratching the surface of Huddersfield town centre, one discovers a rich historical fabric. The first parish church of Huddersfield was built about 1100, yet it remained a village till the late 18th century – until the Industrial Revolution shaped Huddersfield into the town you see today. A walk through the centre will take you past historic buildings such as the grand Huddersfield Train Station – a proud symbol of Victorian architecture and one of the top 15 globally renowned stations.
There are plenty of grade II listed buildings in Huddersfield town centre too, including the Sir John Ramsden Building, built in the late 1700s. This is one of the oldest warehouses left standing in Britain and is now part of the University of Huddersfield. The town centre is also home to the Open Market, which was built around 1887 and housed the town’s wholesale market, which is still used to this day.
Address- John William St, Huddersfield HD1 1ES
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Empire Cinema, Huddersfield. The Empire opened in 1915, designed by the local firm of Stocks & Sykes in a Greek Revival style, and had 870 seats divided between stalls and balcony which had an unusual three-sided flat front. The interior was modernized in an art deco style in 1940, it began to screen pornographic films in the 1970s and still survives in this role in two small screens located in part of the balcony. The stalls and front balcony have been in retail use for decades, and are now in a very poor condition. Grade 2 listed.
It’s truly unfortunate how many beautiful buildings in the UK have been neglected and allowed to fall into disrepair over the years. This neglect often stems from a combination of factors, including lack of funding, changing urban priorities, and sometimes simply a lack of awareness about the historical and cultural significance of these structures.
In an attempt to find new uses for these large, often centrally located buildings, many were converted into bingo halls. This trend started in the 1960s when bingo became a popular pastime in the UK. As the popularity of bingo waned, many of these bingo halls also closed, leaving the buildings vacant once again.
Address: 80 John William St, Huddersfield HD1 5AA
The Woolworth Building is an early American skyscraper designed by architect Cass Gilbert and located at 233 Broadway in Manhattan,
New York City.It was the tallest building in the world from 1913 to 1930,with a height of 792 feet (241 m)More than a century after its construction,it remains one of the 100 tallest buildings in the United States-Wikipedia
Construction of this impressive building lasted from 1881 to 1886. The story goes that the tower was deliberately made higher than that of Glasgow City Chambers to try and outdo their larger city neighbours.
The building was bombed by the Luftwaffe in 1941 and a corner of the building is missing as a result.
The Victoria Tower, Greenock, Scotland - is part of the complex of Municipal Buildings that was constructed largely between 1881 and 1886 in an Italianate style, and to a scale then unseen in the rest of Scotland.
The building famously has a corner missing, something that has never been fixed. This is called "Cowan's Corner" after the landowner of the time who refused to sell his plot for redevelopment.
A WW2 bomb destroyed the shop that sat there in 1941 and although it was always assumed that the Municipal Buildings would eventually be completed when temporary blank facades were erected bounding the site, it has never been fixed.
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The Europa Point Lighthouse, also referred to as the Trinity Lighthouse at Europa Point and the Victoria Tower or La Farola in Llanito, is a lighthouse at Europa Point, on the southeastern tip of the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar, on the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula, at the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea.
Europa Lighthouse was inaugurated on 1 August 1841 in a brief ceremony witnessed by about 10,000 people. The first upgrade of the lighthouse occurred in 1864, when the single-wick lamp was replaced with a Chance Brothers four-wick burner, with further changes in 1875 and in 1894 when the amount of light emitted was increased. A three incandescent mantle burner was added in 1905. Following further modernisation in the 20th century, the lighthouse was fully automated in 1994.
Completed in 1899 to commemorate the 60th Jubilee of Queen Victoria, illuminated in purple in 2022 to mark the passing of Queen Elizabeth II.
The Palace of Westminster, also known as the Houses of Parliament, is located on the banks of the Thames in the London district of Westminster. The palace is the seat of the British Parliament, which consists of the House of Commons and the House of Lords. Since 1987 it has been on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Striking features of the building: the 96 meter high clock tower (Elizabeth Tower, so named in 2012 in honor of the diamond jubilee of Elizabeth II, previously known simply as Clock Tower), which is better known as Big Ben. Westminster Hall, the oldest parts of which date from Norman times and have a beautiful wooden ceiling. The House of Representatives and House of Commons are located in the central part of the building. The Victoria Tower is the square tower on the southwestern side.
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