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HUDDERSFIELD CIVIC SOCIETY

How much do you know about Huddersfield?
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Town Hall worthies: 1. William Shakespeare. 2. George Frideric Handel. 3. James  Watt. 4. Matthew Hale.

Hostelries: 1. Boy on the Barrel. 2. King’s Head (formerly Station Tavern). 3. Revolution de Cuba (originally The Sun Inn). 4. The Albert.

Scenes from a day and night out: Central Library.

Three churches: 1. St Paul’s (now St Paul’s Hall). 2. St Peter’s (Huddersfield Parish Church). 3. Milton Congregational (University Patrick Stewart Building).

Liver Bird and Grasshopper: Martins Bank.
Griffin: Byram Arcade
Modernist lions: Former Co-op Extension, New Street.
Building: Ramsden Building, Queensgate.

Nellie the elephant: Drill Hall, Page Street. 
Stallions: Former Hippodrome and Riding School, Queensgate.
Owl and squirrel: Estate Buildings, Railway Street.

Armorial badges: Railway Station.
Sculptural elements: Somerset Buildings, St. Peter’s Street.
Place of welcome: Methodist Welcome Centre, Lord St.

1 Lord Hanson.
2 Lawrence Batley.
3 James Mason.
4 Rudyard Kipling, Edward Burne-Jones, Edward Poynter, Stanley Baldwin.
5 Billy Currie.
6 Albert Pierrepoint.
7 Samuel William Copley.
8 David Brown.
9 Herbert Asquith.
10 Anita Lonsbrough.

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    • Corporate News
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    • Coming events
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