Looking Up!

Sometimes we never notice the buildings that we pass every day.
It was because the clock chimed, that I looked up at the town hall. I never noticed the weather vane on the top was in the shape of a fox! And what a wonderful tower.
So decided that it would be my blip for today.

The foundation stone for Cleckheaton Town Hall was laid on 21st June 1890, by William Anderton Esq. JP. He was the chairman of George Anderton and Sons Ltd. Worsted Spinners, Victoria Mills. His father founded the business in 1819.
Besides being a successful industrialist he took an active interest in local affairs,.
Was instrumental in bringing the railway to Cleckheaton, and in organising a good supply of gas and water to the town. He help found the British School Which was then pulled down to build the Town Hall.

The clock was presented to the town by J.Walter and Fred Wadsworth as a memorial to their father Elymas Wadsworth, the first chairman of the Town Hall Committee who died 9 months before the official opening.

The Town Hall is still standing but Anderton's mill has gone along with most of the other industry which once made Clecheaton a very prosperous town.

(I might make a series of local buildings)

Red House Museum which was going to be closed by the council (see blip 1st Feb)
is now saved . Well sort of. At the moment it is free but from 1st April they propose to charge £3.50 for adults and £1.50 for children.
Very unfair as all the other museums in Batley, Dewsbury and Huddersfield are free!
The fight goes on!!

Decided against gardening today as the wind was so cold.
Hope it is better tomorrow for our Sunday walk.