The Three Acres in Huddersfield rebuilds after Boxing Day fire - CMCG Creative - video Dailymotion

Tom and Lauren Truelove speak about rebuilding Three Acres in Huddersfield after its Boxing Day fire. Credit: CMCG Creative.

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00:00It's been the first sort of exciting part of the job really, being in that space you

00:04start to imagine actually how it feels you know and so no it's yeah it's been great the

00:08last week it's been amazing.

00:10So this is like the first time we're actually starting to build things back up again and

00:14actually see it take shape so it's yeah it's it feels like a real step forward.

00:20I think despite the horrificness of the fire what it's enabled us to do is to open up the

00:26restaurant it's enabled us to keep all the old parts of the building but modernize them

00:31in a way that it works better without it looking any more modern than it ever was.

00:36I think now we've got a space that's that's that's really good for sort of that magic

00:40hundred or eighty to a hundred guests is a great number to hit in the house.

00:44We're going to leave all the exposed beams which again I think really plays into the

00:50atmosphere that we're trying to create in here so when you walk in here it looks like

00:53a really special place particularly if you're having a wedding in here or a big event that

00:58kind of really old English traditional pub is what we're going to do in this area.

01:04So super informal in the bar eating on this sort of Saturday nights going back to the

01:09point that we wanted to create more area for drinking.

01:13Yeah we've been really mindful of the feedback that we've had from people which is primarily

01:21that there's not a huge amount of space to for people to have pre-dinner drinks right.

01:27Bringing this part of the restaurant into the bar with some low-level relaxed seating

01:31that you don't have to book you can just come and sit down and have a drink will actually

01:36free up some space at the front of the bar.

01:38It's sort of an emotional thing really is the first thing it feels so strange these

01:43places and we kind of felt it in Covid when they're empty and it just feels so strange.

01:48Yeah it feels like there is a huge amount of work to do between now and then at times

01:55overwhelmingly so but we've got a great team helping us so that you know we'll get there

02:02and we just we're so excited for it to reopen and even get a solid date of reopening so

02:09we can open the books and really start to think about people coming back.

02:14Yeah I think that's something we've pushed for is to try and get this diary open you

02:17know so we can just feel like we're getting you know people that want to come back and

02:21support us which is amazing that they've got 30th's and things they want to book in 40th's

02:26whatever just to get those in the diary would be a good step you know would feel like a

02:31great milestone.