Some good news.
“It was designed like this so that the men of the coalfields, when they came to represent their pits, would enter an entrance hall equally as glorious as the entrance hall of the owners of coalmines. It was built on this grand scale to equal anything built by the aristocracy.”
‘Durham’s other cathedral’: mining union hall reopens after £14m restoration | Trade unions | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jan/04/durham-mining-union-hall-redhills-reopens-after-14m-pounds-restoration
