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Goal-less game against Reading

Town were at home to Reading on Saturday

Saturday's result League One
Huddersfield Town 0 - Reading 0
Saturday February 8, 3.00pm — John Smith's Stadium, Huddersfield

Huddersfield Town did marginally better than their last three games with a goal-less draw at home against Reading on Saturday. They stay fifth in the League One table as the gap between the Terriers and the clubs above them increases.

Last Saturday's result League One
Northampton Town 3 - Huddersfield Town 2
Saturday February 1, 3.00pm — Sixfields Stadium, Northampton

Northampton Town gave Town a triple blow with a 3-2 win. The scoreline away at the Sixfields Stadium was just marginally better than the 1-3 defeat by Northampton in the home game back in September. Town dominated the possession but only began to make some use of it when Herbie Kane scored in the 70th minute. Jonathan Hogg put one in 12 minutes later, but it was too little too late after having allowed The Cobblers to gain a three goal lead by the 51st minute. It was the third defeat in the space of just over a week for the Terriers who suddenly find themselves struggling after a previous long unbeaten run of 16 league games. Town drop from fourth to fifth place in League One with a massive gap now of 15 points between them and top-of-table Birmingham City. Northampton rise a place to 19th in the table.

Find out more at the  Huddersfield Town official website.

Gas landmark is being demolished

The gas holder at Gasworks Street is being demolishedA local landmark of the town for more than 100 years is being demolished.

The giant gas holder was the last surviving at the former Huddersfield gas works in Gasworks Street not far from the town centre.

It was built in 1916, but the gas works itself dated back to 1821 when the private Huddersfield Gas Company was formed. This was later taken over by Huddersfield Corporation in the 1970s. The site eventually became the property of Northern Gas Networks.

The huge gas storage container was most used in the days before a regular supply of natural gas and the introduction of new gas pipelines. Most towns had their own gas works producing town gas from coal.

Walls come down but unique roof stands at former market

The listed roof structure of the former market is exposedDemolition continues at the former Queensgate Market and Piazza site in Huddersfield town centre.

Kirklees Council plans to redevelop the area around the Market Hall. The plans include demolition of part of the Market building to form a new public square in front of the library and beside the Town Hall.

End of an era - part of the market building is demolishedA model of the proposed Cultural Heart plansThe listed part of the Market building with its unique airy roof design and sculptured panels will be retained as a Food Hall, social dining area and part of a new library which will extend from it.

A town park will stretch from the public square to the corner of King Street and Queen Street. The old library building is due to be retained as a museum.

The work means that bus stops in Peel Street have been taken out of use with the bus station now the only stop for the routes which used them.

Second building taking shape at new health campus

The new Daphne Steele building at the corner of Southgate and Leeds RoadThe new building in Leeds Road is taking shape next to the recently completed Daphne Steele buildingThe second building of the University of Huddersfield's new National Health Innovation Campus at the ring road junction of Southgate and Leeds Road is now well under way.

The first construction on the site was completed earlier this year and has been named the Daphne Steele Building. Daphne Steele was a nurse who came to the UK in 1951 from what was then British Guiana, now Guyana, to work in the recently-formed NHS. She became a matron at St Winifred's Hospital, Ilkley in 1964.

The new campus aims to lead healthcare innovation across the North of England and will feature a health and wellbeing academy, research and specialist clinical teaching facilities and public-facing features including a podiatry clinic, sports and physiotherapy clinic and health coaching by video link.

The site had been vacant since the demolition of Ibbotson and Lonsbrough Flats and the former Huddersfield Sports Centre while an earlier plan for a new Tesco store on the site was abandoned.

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