COMING HCS EVENTS
Invite to a powerful and deeply moving talk
Huddersfield Civic Society members are invited to a powerful and deeply moving talk by Halifax Civic Trust. Kim Pearson’s theme is called Wainstalls’ Waifs and Strays and will be on Thursday, April 16 at the Maurice Jagger Centre on Lister Street, Halifax, HX1 1UZ, starting at 7.30pm. Kim tells the poignant story of more than 250…
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Guided tour of Rochdale Town Hall: 1.30pm to 2.30pm on Sunday, May 10, 2026
Rochdale Town Hall is a Grade I listed building designed by William Crossland which opened in 1871 to symbolise Rochdale’s rich industrial standing in the textile trade. Its ornate stylings and Victorian Gothic architecture are rivalled only by the Palace of Westminster, according to Historic England. The tour includes the Great Hall, The Old Council…
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Walk to see Arts and Crafts houses in Huddersfield
Tuesday, July 7, 2026, from 7pm to 9pm Join Huddersfield Civic Society in the company of local historian David Griffiths, author of the recent book Huddersfield’s Arts & Crafts Houses: From Edgar Wood to the 1930s, for a guided summer evening walk around our town’s richest area of such housing in the Lindley and upper Birkby districts. Meet…
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