warehouse. The main station building is not being altered. However remodelling the station complex will involve: Creating a new layout enabling four-way tracking across Huddersfield Viaduct, allowing for express trains to bypass slower trains and freight services. Rearranging and extending platforms. Widening platform 1 and providing a new island platform. Building new roof canopies along with a footbridge at the northern (Leeds) end of the station. Extending the existing passenger subway. A redundant parcel tunnel will be filled in. Dismantling and reconstructing the 1880s Tea Rooms. Introducing overhead line equipment throughout the station. Changes to the roof include adding a “roof lantern” to the stretch between platforms 1 and 4, bringing it closer to its original 19th century design.
Here, Robin Longbottom examines how mills produced their own gas to provide lighting after the use of candles came to an end FROM the very onset of the Industrial Revolution, mills operated 24 hours a day for six days a week. In the 18th and early 19th centuries during the hours of darkness, candles were the main source of light and huge quantities were required. This form of lighting brought its own dangers and mill fires were not uncommon. The most notorious was at Colne Bridge, near Huddersfield, in 1818 when seventeen girls aged from nine to 18 years old lost their lives in a fire thought to have been caused by a candle falling over.
Supermarkets and retail parks are among dozens of sites listed within Watford Borough Council s draft local plan Residents and businesses in Watford have just over a month left to make comments on plans that will help shape future development of the town. Public consultation of Watford Borough Council’s draft local plan for 2021-2036 is in full swing, with dozens of sites the council deems appropriate for redevelopment listed within the plan. Among the sites earmarked for residential or commercial development are stations, garages, car parks, and community centres, along with retail parks and supermarkets. A total of seven supermarket and retail park sites across Watford have been listed in the final draft local plan, which the council believes could be capable of squeezing nearly 4,000 homes on, going some way to meeting a government target of nearly 15,000 new homes by 2036.