After the usual Christmas and New Years chaos, time to start blogging again. First up, a delayed post from before Christmas, and a visit to the Dean Clough Mills in Halifax. We were there to look at a Christmas Craft Fair, and took the opportunity to have a look around the site too. Or at least a bit of it; this place is immense... formerly the biggest mill of its kind in the country, it is now a mixed-use development with commercial spaces, offices, galleries, exhibition spaces and more besides.
An interesting mix of architectural styles, with the slightly shoe-horned in multi-storey car park, which is a bit tight for modern-sized vehicles...
OK I'll start with the most fun bit, and the under-construction model of the mills in Lego, being built by Lego modellers Michael LeCount and Tony Priestman.
According to the info in the room, it will use around a million bricks when it is finished, and be about 35 feet in length. Already it is pretty immense...
Certainly set the bar pretty high for our Foster Childs who were with us...
...who also enjoyed a room full of 'retro' video games which was on specially for the show. A little depressing that stuff we grew up playing is now considered retro though...
The permanent art collection is spread both through galleries and along the corridors of the commercial spaces, with the sorts of corridors which look as if Scooby Doo and gang should be running between the doors.
It was only a quick visit, but we reckon we'll be trying for the Christmas Show in 2017 if it is on, and definitely somewhere worth returning to, given that it has good quality permanent and touring exhibitions.
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