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The Hat Factory is an arts facility in the centre of Luton, England that seeks to develop the arts in the town and surrounding region. [1] The Hat Factory opened in April 2004, and includes theatre , music , comedy , dance and film programmes.
The Wright family have been involved in the manufacture of hats continuously for 300 years in Luton and the current Albion Road factory, which was founded by Walter Wright in 1889 with his wife Minnie Susan, is alleged to be the first custom built hat factory in Luton without a residence.
Luton Point is in the centre of Luton, in Bedfordshire, England. It was formerly an Arndale Centre , until it was purchased by Capital & Regional in January 2006. [ 2 ] It was temporarily called The Mall Arndale , but was later referred to as The Mall Luton , although local people still refer to it as "The Arndale".
The Hat Factory is a combined arts venue in the centre of Luton. It opened in 2003 and since then has been the area's main provider of contemporary theatre, dance and music. The venue provides live music, club nights, theatre, dance, films, children's activities, workshops, classes and gallery exhibitions.
Instead it was bought by Luton Museums Service for 300 times its normal annual acquisitions budget to equal the offer of the Metropolitan. [10] On 14 May 2012 it was reported [11] that the jug had been stolen following a break in at the Stockwood Discovery Centre in Luton. It was recovered after being found in a lock-up garage in Epsom on 24 ...
Luton at Large was a 'what's on' guide for the town published by JNB Publishing (now trading as Treacle Factory). [71] Tropical FM TV, [72] which describes itself as an interactive internet-based radio station, [73] used to operate from a building on Midland Road. [74] The Luton Today website [75] covers news and sport within High Town ward.
During the 1960s the factory in Luton employed 37,000 people but from the end of the 1960s production and employment in the town was reduced, due to advances in production methods, as well as the opening of a second Vauxhall factory at Ellesmere Port in Cheshire, and the fact that General Motors was importing Vauxhall-badged cars from its West ...
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