What used to be one of Calderdale’s best loved venues, the Ritz Ballroom Brighouse has been wrecked by a fire, writes The Yorkshire Post.
image: The Ritz Ballroom, Brighouse by habiloid, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The Yorkshire Post writes:
The former Ritz Ballroom in Brighouse has been devastated by the blaze that tore through it on Saturday night (Dec 6)…
A planning statement submitted with the application said the building has been empty since February 2020 and was suffering from substantial damp…
… The building dates back to 1937 when it opened as a cinema – the first in Brighouse. It closed in 1963 and reopened as a bingo hall in 1965…
