{"id":616199,"date":"2025-12-06T15:41:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T15:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/616199\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T15:41:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T15:41:33","slug":"ww2-bomb-damage-uncovered-during-leeds-town-hall-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/616199\/","title":{"rendered":"WW2 bomb damage uncovered during Leeds Town Hall work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leeds Town Hall was designed by architect Cuthbert Brodrick and was one of the largest town halls in the United Kingdom when it was opened by Queen Victoria in 1858.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The extent of the damage to the building from the bombing and subsequent repairs has meant urgent structural work was needed to make the site safe, according to Leeds City Council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dan Doherty, regional director for contractors Kier Construction North and Scotland, said: &#8220;With heritage building projects, it&#8217;s often only once construction begins that we start uncovering layers of history and discovering unexpected aspects of the building&#8217;s story &#8211; and this of course means we have to adapt our original plans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Conservation and repair of key features, including stone masonry, delicate plasterwork and doors, are also planned to protect and preserve the building&#8217;s heritage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leeds Town Hall was designed by architect Cuthbert Brodrick and was one of the largest town halls in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-616199","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115673385138223415","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}