The Leeds City Varieties Music Hall (pictured) is celebrating a £2.7m award from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), which will enable the building to be restored and create a home for a music hall archive. The Grade II* listed building is one of only four Victorian music halls remaining in the UK. The archive will house leaflets, handbills, posters and photos from artists such Charlie Chaplin and Harry Houdini, who have appeared there. The HLF also announced that the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery has been granted a ‘first round pass’, approving its outline plans and allowing it to progress to the next stage of the funding process, before receiving a final decision from the Fund. It has put forward development plans for the redisplay and reinterpretation of its Birmingham History Collections, which date from 1500 to the present day.