Motorists don’t have a stake in town’s projects
IN REPLY to M G Crosland Moors’ letter, where do motorists fit in to the new plans for Huddersfield? They don’t and haven’t done for a long time.
Now the Queens Gate car park has to come down, but they are going to replace it with a Green space and not a brand new stronger structure that is needed. What on earth is a sound space? I shall also be taking Lesley Lockwood’s advice in Thursday’s Examiner and taking my money to Barnsley or Wakefield. I travel into town from the Holmfirth area and Queens Gate car park is the only one I can use mainly because I have a disabled badge.
There are still four or five by the Town Hall sometimes. I could go around and park opposite the bus stands but they have gone and Wilkinson is always full. I can’t park in the Kingsgate Centre because I am out of breath before I get to W H Smiths. Even if there is enough parking when you move the Market I would not be able to walk all the way back to the main shops.
I am afraid that Huddersfield will become more of a ghost town than it is already!
Restore pub to glory
BRIAN Horton is right in wanting the pub and buildings back on Castle Hill. The feature – such a landmark – looks very lonely without its companion buildings!
The pub also adjoined a farm and a family member “Lizzie” ran both the farm and the pub in the 1920s.
My dad and his brothers would spend the summer there helping on the farm being rewarded by huge plates of dripping bread for breakfast. Coming from a poor family it was the nearest they got to a holiday but oh how they enjoyed themselves!
I have pictures of the farm and pub and it should not be an insuperable task to build both the farm and pub as it was originally. The farm building could become a history museum of the area which is steeped in history.
Let’s get Huddersfield back to what it looked like originally then it may become the town that survived – not the town that died, aka Kirklees!
Leave the hill as it is
IN REPLY to Mr Brian Horton’s letter I wish to inform him of the following.
Firstly, my suggestion was for a tea van (converted van in Mr Horton’s vernacular) and loo at the bottom of the Hill, NOT at the top as suggested by our council (who always seem to get things wrong)! I wish it to be known I am opposed to changing the Hill in any way!
Secondly, if Mr Horton has read any of my other correspondence over the last 12 years he will already be aware, I know there was an inn there which pre dated the Jubilee Tower! I have already stated I frequented this excellent hostelry!
Having been without a hostelry for the last 13 years the Hill has reverted to its pre-inn days (apart from the Jubilee Tower which has given the Hill the only building it requires) and has become a popular visiting site. Let us leave it so.