Even with the lamp standard in the way the next one looks to be a shop called Manhattan, was this a fashion shop? Next is Hair Flare, I can remember that one being on Market Street for many years. Next is Cee Jays,can anyone remember what this shop sold. I remember a couple who ran this shop selling jeans and leisure clothes aNd traded under the name of Ziggy's. I bought some jeans from there but sadly the business struggled in the economic climate of the time and found it necessary to move on.

Next was the Health Food shop, looking back at the history of the shops in the town centre there appears to have been a number of health food shops in the town centre for generations. 

Then there is a gap between the buildings followed by the rear door to Woolworth's. This was the shop when youngsters particularly school girls gained their first experience in the work place with a traditional Saturday job. Woolworth's was as British as fish and chips for decades and it came as a huge shock when it closed in 2008 and all 807 stores shut their doors for the last time. Brighouse lost one its main stay large stores in the town centre and as we have seen in more recent times other have followed suit. 

It is difficult seeing the names of the next three shops but for many years the Pork Butchers shop was there but in later years it was S. Chadwick's family butchers shop. Moving on to next door was Rotate the vinyl record. Before we get to the corner was a small shop operated by Age Concern. Finally, on the corner of Market Street with Commercial Street was the Famous Army and Navy shop. This was another long-standing shop on our high street, and it came as a big shock when that suddenly closed down.

This is just one small part of one street in the town centre. Most of the street was originally built to coincide with the Coronation of King George Vl and Queen Elizabeth in 1937. It was called Market Street because for many years the town centre market was on the opposite side of the road to these shops. The new bus station of the 1950s forced the market to move to a different location but the street retained the name.