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Notable Buildings


The Lecture Hall

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The Lecture Hall on Main Street was built by the Millowners, to provide a concert hall, library, meeting place and school. The ivy clad portion of the building was used by Greenholme Mills School until 1897.

The Lecture Hall was renamed the Queen’s Hall, at the time of the Coronation in 1953. It now houses the office of the Burley Parish Council, which is open to the public on Wednesday mornings from 9.30 to 11.30 a.m.

This and several other features of Victorian Burley, like the Local Board of Health, and eventually the Recreation Ground, were examples of a kind of Paternalism which characterised the works of some Victorian industrialists.