Editing Huddersfield (section)

==Economy==

[[File:Huddsview.jpg|thumb|The bridge carrying the railway entering the station, the stadium, gas holder and Kilner bank viewed from the top of Fitzwilliam Street]]

=== Industry ===
Huddersfield is a manufacturing town, despite the university being the largest employer. Historically the town produced woollen textiles. This area of business, along with the chemical and engineering industries that emerged to support the manufacture of textiles, was the basis of the town's nineteenth and early twentieth century prosperity. The number of people who work in textiles has declined greatly, but the surviving companies produce large quantities of [[Woolen|woollen]] products with little labour. The town is home to textile, chemical and engineering companies, including Brook Motors Ltd founded by Ernest Brook in 1904. Against conventional wisdom, he started making [[alternating current]] electric motors, and he did this in one room with two assistants and starting capital of just £300. On its 50th anniversary in 1954 it employed more than 2,000 people and, with Ernest's sons Frank and Jack in charge, was the largest exclusive producer of AC motors in the world, and had a turnover of £4,500,000. That same year Brook Motors Ltd operated 10 factories in Huddersfield, its biggest being Empress Works on St Thomas's Road, and opened one at Barugh Green, Barnsley.{{cn|date=December 2024}}

Other local manufacturers are [[Cummins|Cummins Turbo Technologies]], founded in 1952 as Holset by Messrs. Holmes and Croset.<ref>{{cite news|title=History of Holset turbochargers|url=http://www.myholsetturbo.com/holsethistory.html}}</ref> (turbochargers), David Brown Gear systems (industrial gearing), Huddersfield Fine Worsteds (textiles), Taylor & Lodge (textiles), C & J Antich (textiles), Syngenta AG ([[Agrichemical|agro-chemicals]]), [[Pennine Radio Limited]] ([[electronics]] [[transformer]]s and sheet [[metalworking]]) and a large number of niche manufacturers, such as Dual Seal Glass (maker of spandrel glass panels<ref>{{cite news|last=Zientek|first=Henryk|date=4 November 2011|title=Dual Seal Glass named Business of the Year|newspaper=The Huddersfield Daily Examiner|url=http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/business/dual-seal-glass-named-business-4963685|access-date=19 August 2014}}</ref>) and Ellis Furniture (producer of kitchen and bathroom furniture).<ref>{{cite news|date=30 August 2012|title=Ellis Furniture – the Huddersfield family business still going strong after 120 years – Interiors|newspaper=Yorkshire Life|url=http://www.yorkshirelife.co.uk/homes-gardens/interiors/ellis_furniture_the_huddersfield_family_business_still_going_strong_after_120_years_1_1571449|access-date=19 August 2014}}</ref> Huddersfield is home to Andrew Jones Pies, a regional award-winning pie-maker, and [[Mamas and Papas]], a manufacturer and retailer of prams, pushchairs and related items and specialist pneumatics supplier Shelley Automation Ltd.

=== Health ===
[[File:HuddersfieldRoyalInfirmary.jpg|thumb|left|[[Huddersfield Royal Infirmary]].]]
[[Huddersfield Royal Infirmary]] is in [[Lindley, West Yorkshire|Lindley]]. Medical services are split between there and the [[Calderdale Royal Hospital]] at [[Salterhebble]], near [[Halifax, West Yorkshire|Halifax]]. [[Kirkwood Hospice]] provides care for the [[terminal illness|terminally ill]], and is dependent on donations and charitable gifts. Princess Royal Hospital provided [[maternity]] facilities until the risks of not being able to get an ambulance to [[Emergency department|A&E]] in the event of complications were judged to outweigh the benefits of specialist service provision. It now functions as a day clinic, [[family planning]] consultation centre and [[Sexual health clinic|GUM Clinic]]. A decision to move most maternity services provided by the Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust to the Calderdale Royal Hospital ended the provision in 2007, despite strong local opposition. The campaign was led by [[Save Huddersfield NHS]] which elected a councillor, Dr Jackie Grunsell in the Crosland Moor ward.  In January 2016 plans were announced to close the A&E department of Huddersfield Royal Infirmary and have all emergency cases go to Calderdale Royal instead. This sparked uproar in local communities as it would mean journeys from some areas of over 40 minutes to and from the hospital assuming that the main road into Halifax was not congested, as it frequently is.<ref>{{cite news|date=15 January 2016|title=RECAP: Huddersfield Royal Infirmary set to be demolished as part of A&E closure plan|work=The Huddersfield Examiner|url=http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/recap-huddersfield-royal-infirmary-set-10739008}}</ref>

The former [[St Luke's Hospital, Huddersfield|St. Luke's Hospital]] in [[Crosland Moor]] mostly provided [[geriatric]] and [[psychiatric]] care. It closed in 2011 and the land was sold to a developer; this land is now home to Fitzwilliam Grange, a housing estate.

[[Platform 1]] is a charity established in 2018 and provides a space and advice for men struggling with mental health.

===Entertainment===
[[File:Lawrence Batley Theatre - Queen Street - geograph.org.uk - 617687.jpg|thumb|[[Lawrence Batley Theatre]]]]
The [[Lawrence Batley Theatre]], opened in 1994, in what was once the largest [[Methodist Church of Great Britain|Wesleyan Chapel]] in the world,<ref>{{Google books|hjM9AAAAIAAJ|Medicine and society in Wakefield and Huddersfield, 1780–1870|page=30}}</ref> and presents dance, drama, comedy, music and exhibitions and is the base for Full Body and The Voice, a company concerned with the integration of disabled people into mainstream theatre.

The [[John Smith's Stadium]], (formerly the Galpharm Stadium and Alfred McAlpine Stadium), is a multi-use sports stadium with a gym, swimming pool, spa and offers sporting classes. The stadium is home to Huddersfield Giants and Huddersfield Town football team. Adjacent the stadium is an [[Odeon Cinemas|Odeon cinema]] (formerly UCI).

There are many pubs, restaurants and night clubs, one of which, [[Tokyo Industries|Tokyo]], which closed in 2019, occupies the former Huddersfield [[County Court]], a 19th-century [[Grade II listed building]]. The oldest pub is ''The Parish'',{{efn|formerly the Fleece Inn}} trading since 1720.

===Shopping===
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Huddersfield has a large and diverse retail shopping area, enclosed within the town's ring road, compared with other towns of its size. There are three shopping areas: [[Kingsgate Shopping Centre|Kingsgate]], The Packhorse Precinct and [[Piazza Centre|The Piazza Centre]]. The Piazza offers an outdoor shopping mall near the public library, with a grassed area, used for relaxation and events throughout the year such as entertainment, international markets and iceskating in winter. Through the adjacent Market Arcade is a covered market hall, which has listed building status, due in part to its distinctive roof formed by [[Hyperbola|hyperbolic]] [[paraboloid]]s. It is adjacent to the town hall and public library. An open market trades next to [[Tesco]], on the other side of the town centre.

The town centre is home to several national high street retailers and chain stores. There are also a variety of small specialist and independent shops, many in the three-storey Victorian shopping arcade, Byram Arcade, on street, Westgate.

However over the last decade many shops have closed down causing a general decline of the town centre.<ref>{{cite web|last=Himelfield|first=Dave|date=17 January 2019|title=High street chains that have left our town centre in last 10 years|url=https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/business/high-street-chains-left-huddersfield-15691605|access-date=26 February 2019|website=huddersfieldexaminer}}</ref> Most notability the closure of [[British Home Stores|British Home Stores (BHS)]] in 2016 left a large shopping unit empty in The Piazza Centre. In 2019 [[Marks & Spencer]] announced 17 closures within the UK, one of these was the Huddersfield store.<ref>{{cite news|last=Wood|first=Zoe|date=15 January 2019|title=Marks & Spencer closes 17 more stores in new blow to high street|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jan/15/marks-and-spencer-stores-close-m-and-s-hull|access-date=26 February 2019|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>