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Queensgate, HUDDERSFIELD, HD1 2RY

For a history of the building visit this http://www.theatrestrust.org.uk/resources/theatres/show/2122-hippodrome-huddersfield.

A new building of the seemingly rapidly-expanding Huddersfield University. Rather eyecatching I thought, with a pleasing sweeping curve following the road. By Darnton Elgee, c2008.

Poet Lemn Sissay MBE's work, 'Let there be peace', engraved on the University's Creative Arts Building. The giant 40 feet high, 30 feet wide and 100 feet in the sky poem was unveiled in October 2014 (http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/poet-lemn-sissay-unveils-giant-7878258 Huddersfield Daily Examiner). LET THERE BE PEACE Let there be peace So frowns fly away like albatross And skeletons foxtrot from cupboards, So war correspondents become travel show presenters And magpies bring back lost property, Children, engagement rings, broken things. Let there be peace So storms can go out to sea to be Angry and return to calm, So the broken can rise up and dance in the hospitals. Let the Aged Ethiopian man in the grey block of flats Peer through his window and see Addis before him, So his thrilled outstretched arms become frames For his dreams. Let there be peace Let tears evaporate to form clouds, cleanse themselves And fall into reservoirs of drinking water. Let harsh memories burst into fireworks that melt In the dark pupils of a child’s eyes And disappear like shoals of silver darting fish, And let the waves reach the shore with a Shhhhhhhhhhhhh shhhhhhhhhhhhhh shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Lemn Sissay MBE

Poet Lemn Sissay MBE's work, 'Let there be peace', engraved on the University's Creative Arts Building (Image]). The giant 40 feet high, 30 feet wide and 100 feet in the sky poem was unveiled in October 2014 (http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/poet-lemn-sissay-unveils-giant-7878258 Huddersfield Daily Examiner). LET THERE BE PEACE Let there be peace So frowns fly away like albatross And skeletons foxtrot from cupboards, So war correspondents become travel show presenters And magpies bring back lost property, Children, engagement rings, broken things. Let there be peace So storms can go out to sea to be Angry and return to calm, So the broken can rise up and dance in the hospitals. Let the Aged Ethiopian man in the grey block of flats Peer through his window and see Addis before him, So his thrilled outstretched arms become frames For his dreams. Let there be peace Let tears evaporate to form clouds, cleanse themselves And fall into reservoirs of drinking water. Let harsh memories burst into fireworks that melt In the dark pupils of a child’s eyes And disappear like shoals of silver darting fish, And let the waves reach the shore with a Shhhhhhhhhhhhh shhhhhhhhhhhhhh shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Lemn Sissay MBE

Another new building for the University

Converted into a night club in 2005. Grade II listed building, described at this http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1231302.

As seen from the inner ring road.

A glance along Queen Street, in the direction of Cross Church Street, reveals the former Court of Requests building, complete with its crest above the porch. This is currently a restaurant. Courts of this nature were created following an order by the Lord Privy Seal. They became an independent tribunal with some Privy Council elements under Henry VII, with jurisdiction mainly over matters of equity. This national-style court became increasingly popular due to the absence of any cost in bringing a case to it and the speed at which matters were processed, in contrast with the slow and expensive common law courts. The court entourage originally followed the Monarch on his trips around England. Towards the end of Henry VIII's reign, the Court took on a more professional attitude with the appointment of two professional "Masters of Requests Ordinary" to act as judges, rather than simply relying on the Lord Privy Seal as was previously the case. An additional two "Masters of Requests Extraordinary" were appointed under Elizabeth I to allow two judges to accompany her on her travels around England. Under James I of England, two more Ordinary Masters were appointed. However, despite this this peripatetic court began to be criticised over the backlog of cases due to its increasing workload. When the Court formally became an independent body in the 16th century, free of Privy Council control, it immediately became vulnerable to attack by the common-law courts, which asserted that it had no formal jurisdiction and that the Court of Chancery was an appropriate equitable body for cases.