WORK on a new “old” bandstand for Beaumont Park in Huddersfield is progressing well.

And officials hope the replica structure, currently being constructed in Wigan, can be used for summer concerts.

It is hoped that the bandstand will be ready to go into the park around the end of April.

It is a replica of the one from a century ago and will be erected on the original stone base which was uncovered under a shrubbery in 2000.

Engineers are painstakingly copying features that were part of the park’s original bandstand when the park opened to the public in 1883.

Recreating the original bandstand is part of a £200,000 project to get the park resounding to the sound of music once more.