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Yahoo
13-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
On this day in 2015: artists' garden underway behind York Art Gallery
On this day in 2015, the York Press reported that a previously hidden corner of York city centre was being opened to the public for the first time in 100 years. Work had begun on creating an artists' garden and edible wood behind York Art Gallery, linking to the Museum Gardens, Marygate, and Exhibition Square. York Museums Trust said the two-acre site was last used by the public when much of it was the Great Hall, a huge exhibition space attached to the gallery when it was built in 1879. The hall closed in 1909 after it was deemed unsafe and was then destroyed in a German bombing raid in 1942. The garden was set to open to the public on Yorkshire Day, August 1, 2015. Alison Pringle, gardens manager for York Museums Trust, said at the time: "This site is truly a hidden corner of York's city centre which we can't wait to reveal to the public. "It was first enclosed by the monks of St Mary's Abbey in 1266, and for the majority of the 700 years that followed it has been off-limits and hidden behind the high abbey walls. "For a long time it was orchards and pasture owned by the abbey, so, in a way, the creation of an edible wood will hark back to the area's past, while the new artists' garden will give the city a versatile space for a wide range of arts events." The design work was by landscape architects Erika Diaz Peterson and JCLA, while contractor Simpson was said to have begun work on the garden site.
BBC News
10-04-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
25-year lease signed with Bradford Live operator
Bradford's newest music venue has the potential to boost the council's income by £17m over the next 25 years, the authority has said. Trafalgar Entertainment was announced as the new operator of Bradford Live, a 3,800-seat former cinema, earlier this year. Bradford Council said it has now signed a 25-year lease with the company, guaranteeing an annual rental income for the venue as well as a share of the venue was billed as a key part of Bradford's plans for its City of Culture year but was mired in controversy after the original operator, NEC Group, pulled out in September. Trafalgar Entertainment has already installed thousands of seats in the 1930s Art Deco building since taking is set to open in September, with a preview event due to take place on 1 August to mark Yorkshire Day. The Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra will lead a celebratory concert called "Yorkshire Calling" at the newly restored venue, and will be joined by the Bantam of the Opera choir. The choir is made up of a group of Bradford City supporters - known as Bantams - selected by the BBC. Aside from the preview, no acts have as yet been confirmed to perform but the council said a full programme of events would be announced in the "near future". Councillor Susan Hinchcliffe, leader of Bradford Council, said: "Now that Trafalgar Entertainment are confirmed as the operators, we are happy to reveal the details of the contract. "This project is about so much more than the money though; Bradford Live is a building the people of Bradford campaigned to save, and we did. "It's a building of social and cultural significance which has now been restored as one of the premier venues in the country with a bright future ahead under the expert management of Trafalgar Entertainment, who we've been delighted to welcome to Bradford."Initially forecast to cost between £22m and £25m, the venue has been funded by almost £44m from Bradford Council, with the rest coming from the West Yorkshire Combined Authority, the government and the Heritage Lottery Fund. Listen to highlights from West Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North.
