Huddersfield Town Hall Refurbishment Update 20.08.09 Part 1

1st Floor Corridor outside the Reception Room and Council Chamber





















Ground Floor Corridor

Huddersfield Town Hall Refurbishment Update 20.08.09 Part 2

Meeting Room Nos 3 - Plaster Work and Panelling progressing well

Meeting Room Nos 2

Meeting Room Nos 1 Below

Batley Town Hall Refurbishment Update 18.08.09

View the 2009 / 10 Kirklees Orchestra Season Brochure

Open publication - Free publishing - More town hall

Huddersfield Town Hall Refurb Update 06.08.09 pt 1

Thanks to Sue wood escorting around me around the building to take some quick pictures of the ongoing refurbishment works of the town hall.

Pictures 1&2 - show the main Ramsden Street staircase with the wall paper being stripped the ornate ceiling being repaired and the beautiful wooden panelling, Staircase and war memorial being protected.

Picture 3 - gives an exclusive view of the ornate flooring near the ramdent street entrance which has been hidden for years

Pictures 4&5 - show meeting room one stripped with the new cabling already starting to be installed.

Sorry some of the pictures we're a bit blurred!

Huddersfield Town Hall Refurb Update 06.08.09 pt 2

Your intrepid Blog reporter and the flash on the camera shows how dusty it is at the moment

Batley Town Hall Refurbishment Update 03.08.09

The wrapping is on the building and we're ready to go!

Batley Town Hall Refurbishment Update 23.07.09 & 24.07.09

The scaffolding is going up! 23.07.09

The scaffolding is creeping up slowly up the building 24.07.08

Dewsbury Town Hall to feature in latest BBC Drama

Dewsbury Town Hall is to star in a new drama called Spanish Flu - The Forgotten Fallen.

Wednesday 5th August @ 9pm on BBC4

Over the past few months the Town Halls management team have been working closely with Screen Yorkshire and Hardy Pictures to secure this filming at Dewsbury Town Hall.

The whole building was used for a ten day period and was overrun with more than 70 cast and crew!

______________

Spanish Flu – The Forgotten Fallen is a new drama illuminating one doctor's pioneering efforts to protect the people of Manchester from the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, starring Bill Paterson (Little Dorrit and Criminal Justice), Mark Gatiss (League Of Gentlemen and Doctor Who), Charlotte Riley (The Take and Wuthering Heights) and Kenneth Cranham (Rome and The Lavender List).

Set against the background of the Armistice in November 1918, as millions of exhausted soldiers return home from the Great War, the film tells the little known story of Dr James Niven (Bill Paterson), Manchester's Medical Officer of Health for 30 years, and his heroic efforts to combat a second wave of fatal influenza as it spreads across the city of Manchester and the UK.

Dr Niven has built his career protecting the welfare of Manchester's most vulnerable people, from the factory workers to the slum dwellers. But, just as Manchester's fighting heroes are returning home and crowds of men, women and children gather to celebrate the end of the Great War, Niven realises that it will take all of his energy and expertise to limit the spread of this mysterious infection.

Facing resistance from both the city and his fellow medical officials, Dr Niven, statistician Ernest Dunks (Mark Gatiss) and their secretary Peggy Lytton (Charlotte Riley) struggle to understand the evolving virus; to communicate the urgent need for action to the establishment and the media; and to pull together scarce resources to alleviate its impact on the poorest in society.
And as they battle against complacency, inertia and red tape, the gravity of the unfolding crisis hits home when Peggy's family start to succumb to the virus.

Inspired by Dr Niven's own accounts and documented facts, the film pays a rare tribute to the estimated 70 million forgotten fallen who died from Spanish influenza across the world.
Dr Niven's heroism continues to resonate today with many of his conclusions, instructions and discoveries echoed by modern advice and procedures for pandemic flu.

Refurbishment work starts today at Huddersfield Town Hall and also Batley Town Hall

We are delighted to announce that refurbishment work at Huddersfield Town Hall and Batley Town Hall has commenced today.

HUDDERSFIELD TOWN HALL
This summer Huddersfield Town Hall has £1m allocated to the refurbishment of meeting rooms 1, 2 and 3 plus the corridors outside these areas. Other areas of redecoration include the staircase and the corridor leading to the Council Chamber and Reception Room.

Also the ornate ceilings in the main concert hall will undergo detailed inspections before further phases of refurbishment go ahead.

From late September 2009 the meeting rooms will be offering 21st Century comfort, style and technology in beautiful Victorian surroundings.

BATLEY TOWN HALL
The scaffolding is will start to go up later this week at Batley Town Hall before a full external refurbishment of the building this summer and autumn.

Keep upto date with news, photos and interviews thoughout the refurbishment of your town halls through this blog or follow us at twitter (search for kirkleestownhls)