Liberal Club, New Street, Slaithwaite
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- location: New Street, Slaithwaite
- status: still exists but now in different use
- category: club
- architect: Ben Stocks
The cornerstone of Slaithwaite Liberal Association's club was laid on Saturday 8 December 1883 by Maria Johanna Beaumont, the wife of Henry Frederick Beaumont of Whitley Hall.[1]
Liberal politician Lord Rosebery[2] officially opened the club on Thursday 22 October 1885.[3]
The building had become Slaithwaite Civic Hall by the early 1950s.
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- ↑ "Liberalism in Slaithwaite" in Huddersfield Daily Chronicle (10/Dec/1883).
- ↑ Wikipedia: Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery.
- ↑ "Opening the Slaithwaite Liberal Club" in Huddersfield Daily Chronicle (23/Oct/1885).