

Opening the gates
Tuesday 1st August marked the long-awaited reopening of the Piece Hall in Halifax, just down the road from flex’s Hebden Bridge office. There are all kinds of stories behind its gates – including that told by the gates themselves. At 10am on Tuesday 1st August (Yorkshire Day), Halifax-born Paralympian athlete Hannah Cockroft rang the Piece Hall bell. Nearly 240 years after it was first rung to signal the start of trading in 1779, this time it marked the reopening of this uniq