THE PIECE HALL ON FILM
The Piece Hall It has been seen in many documentaries and feature films and
TV productions, including the much praised ‘Brassed Off’.
Piers Gough and Adam Hart-Davis have both focused
TV documentaries on the architectural and heritage
importance of the Piece Hall.
Courtesy of Calderdale MBC
FILMS
Room At The Top - 1959 - Room at the Top was adapted from John Braine's first novel,
about an ambitious young man in a local government office in a large and bleak northern town
who makes a set for a wealthy industrialist's daughter,
and when thwarted turns to in older married woman.
Eventually he is forced into marriage with the girl,
the older woman meeting her death after a drinking orgy.
The Dresser - 1983 - In a touring Shakespearean theatre group, a backstage hand -
the dresser, is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company.
He struggles to support the deteriorating star as the company struggles
to carry on during the London blitz. The pathos of his backstage efforts rival the pathos
in the story of Lear and the Fool that is being presented on-stage, as the situation comes to a crisis.
Brassed Off - 1996 - Based on a brass band from a pit village Grimethorpe.
The Piece Hall was set as a venue for the semi final band contest before the final down at the Royal Albert Hall
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TV Production
Noel Edmonds Multi Coloured Swap Shop - 198? (BBC) - I can Just remember this one.
Stay Lucky - 1989 - 1993 ( ITV Yorkshire ) - Des Waterman, Jan Francis, Emma Wray, Susan George, Niall Tolbin
They film various parts of the TV programme in the Piece Hall
Wish You Were Here with Judith Charmers - 1989 (ITV) - Holiday Programme
This programme went out in July and had one of our old shops featured. The shop was the 'Christmas Shop'
Rosie and Jim - 1994ish - Childrens Show - Rosie and Jim are canal barge dolls.
John drives the boat. John doesn't know Rosie and Jim come to life.
Rosie and Jim take a Market Stall at the Piece Hall.
Adam Hart Davis - (BBC)
Songs of Praise - Aled Jones - 2004 (BBC)
Ghost Towns LIVE with Derek Acorah - 2006 - (Living TV)
Buildings That Shaped Britain With Architectural historian Simon Thurley Aired on 7th July 2006 (channel Five) (Talkback)
www.piecehall.info
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