Queensgate Market

Huddersfield's Queensgate Market is “a spectacular combination of architecture, engineering and art”, according to this website. To which, I’d add “commerce”, as it remains a thriving market. I wanted to go there after seeing it on Nicholas Crane’s Town programme on TV. Opened in 1970 the hall was built with a bespoke roof system of 21 asymmetric curved shells. The design allows for maximum light into the market and is considered to be the best example still standing of a retail market from the 1960s and 1970s. It’s the only one of its kind in Europe, Crane asserted. Apparently my grandfather, Herbert Madden, campaigned against the demolition of its Victorian predecessor.