George Hotel’s ultimate conversion – The Yorkshire Post says

The brainchild of Rugby League Cares, its new partnership with Kirklees Council to create the proposed National Rugby League Museum pays homage to a sport which was formed when 21 clubs met at the famous hotel in 1895 to agree a breakaway from the Rugby Football Union.

And with the hotel, closed since 2013, now the focal point of ambitious plans to put Huddersfield’s proud history at the heart of ambitious plans to redevelop and modernise the town centre, it is right that a permanent and prominent location is found to celebrate rugby league’s rich history. Indeed, it could be argued that the plan is already in a league of its own.

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