Huddersfield: Queensgate Market traders shut up shop

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The market is being transformed into a food hall as part of a £250m town centre improvement plan.

Traders and shoppers in Huddersfield bid a final farewell to the town's Queensgate Market on Saturday.

Lindsay Foster, from Lincoln's Florist, described it as a "weird day", but added she was looking forward to the future. "It will be emotional to leave the market hall and the other traders after 16 years but the plans to use the space for a new food hall are really exciting and will make excellent use of our iconic building."Councillor Graham Turner, cabinet member for regeneration at Kirklees Council, said: "In an ever-changing world where shopping habits have changed, people's expectations have changed; two markets are unsustainable.

 

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