Raining in Huddersfield

‘more of a palace than a station’

‘a kind of stately home with trains running through it ‘

Ian Nairn describes it well, Huddersfield Station is an impressive building with its Corinthian portico and colonnades with pavilions. It was designed by J P Pritchett and built in 1846-50. Complete here with a statue of local lad Harold Wilson, to whom I will always be grateful because of my access to the Open University.

We got a train from Appleby to Leeds and then Leeds to Huddersfield. We are now in a Premier Inn right by the canal basin at Aspley.