Areas, buildings and monuments

As the Luminary installation opens at the National Lottery-funded Crossness Pumping Station, we spoke to four artists who combine old and new in their work.

In part one of two features, find out how National Lottery funding helped save Halifax's Georgian Piece Hall, but also benefited the town, too.

Read: Part one: what saving Piece Hall did for Halifax . Cultural cachet There has been a knock-on effect on the cultural cachet of the town too. In 2018, BBC 6 Music named Halifax “the Shoreditch of the North” , citing a burgeoning music and craft beer scene. It has also recently been dubbed

The Robinson brothers had never visited nearby Auckland Castle until an HLF-supported project saw them step through its doors for the first time.