Leeds Town Hall Organ Pipe restoration

Yorkshire Post

Leeds Town Hall newly-gilded organ pipes by decorative artistsfrom a firm called The Upright Gilders who have restored bits of it to how it looked when Queen Victoria saw it at the opening in 1858

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00:00 I'm Robert Woodland. I'm Debra Miller.

00:07 And we're both here today, or for the next year,

00:18 working on the organ pipes,

00:21 taking them back to the original designs

00:24 and ideas, what they were done originally.

00:28 As you can see, by looking here,

00:31 and you can see all the lovely designs,

00:34 and at the bottom you can see the filled flock of flowers,

00:38 which Debra has done.

00:40 We're restoring the pipes, the façade pipes,

00:42 to the original 1858 design in methods and paints,

00:47 just as the Victorian artists since did in the day.

00:55 Now we're going to go in here.

00:57 [inaudible]

01:04 Okay.

01:05 (slurping)

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