The UK’s only surviving 18th Century cloth trading hall has re-opened after a £19m restoration.
image The Piece Hall Trust website
The opening of the Grade I listed Piece Hall in Halifax was delayed several times since work started in 2014. Hannah Cockroft, the Halifax-born British wheelchair racer and Paralympian, rang a bell to mark the start of trading on Yorkshire Day.
The Piece Hall Trust said: ‘It’s not easy to get across the scale and grandeur of the place.’
Nicky Chance Thompson, chief executive of the trust, said: ‘Given the 200-year history of the building and scale of the transformation it’s incredible that until now, it has been one of the north’s best kept secrets. We want to give the town a town square to wander around, have conversations and coffee.’
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