His decision to book the Royal Festival Hall, recently built for the Festival of Britain, in 1954 was considered very brave, but the event was sold out in four days.
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Briggs built his first loudspeaker in the cellar of his home in Ilkley in the valley of the River Wharfe known as Wharfedale.
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Later he attended Crossley and Porter Orphan School in Halifax, where he acquired a love of classical music.
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