Shaw Lodge Mills set for starring role on TV
Shaw Lodge Mills in Halifax is to feature in a BBC 2 TV show later this month, developer St James Securities has revealed.
The series is called Britain's Heritage Heroes and will feature the redevelopment of the building which St James Securities are currently undertaking.
Leeds-based St James, who originally secured planning permission for the 10-acre site in 2008, have completed the refurbishment of Shaw Lodge House at the gateway of the site and are now restoring the rest of the site.
Oliver Quarmby, director of St James Securities, will appear on the programme on February 8 during the episode entitled The Pennines – Britain’s Mountain Backbone.
The series is presented by John Craven and Jules Hudson.
"It is one of our star stories," said Hudson.
"I was rather pleased to be going somewhere like Shaw Lodge Mills. The story of the Industrial Revolution is such an important one in our nation's history and Halifax played such an important role in that.
"It was an interesting contrast from the wild and woolly moors of the Pennines to then stumble across this once-thriving hotbed of the Industrial Revolution."
"I was very impressed by the developers St James Securities and I thought they really had the measure of it and were keen to take it forward and use the building that was there."
