The Mayor Councillor Herbert Prest and his wife the Mayoress are visiting the Sandholme Crescent Centre at Hipperholme.  This was during their tenure of office 1966-67, a mere 58 years ago.  How many of the residents can you recognise - back row 5th from the right is Mrs Lucy Thornton, who lived on Towngate opposite the Hipperholme Grammar School. But like many others once their back to back terraced houses were demolished to build some new flats on the site they all had to be rehoused.   

A lot has changed since this well known town centre pub closed down and gradually began to fall apart.

Light, spacious and quiet is how Brighouse's new sub-divisional police station was described after it had been built over 1963 and into 1964. It finally opened in March 1964. Situated about a half mile from the town centre, it is situated at Thornhill Briggs, at the junction with Bradford Road and Woodvale Road. It is modern in appearence which is vastly different than the old Police Street (now Lawson Road) station.

Here is another view of Park Street from the one I showed you earlier, this time it shows the oppoisite side of the road.  We know what is between the Post Office and Taylor's hair salon now, but what were the original buildings on this site like. In this next photograph are the properties that were eventually demolished leaving the empty space you see here until the new shops were built. 

PLEASE NOTE ALL THESE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE FROM THE CHRIS HELME COLLECTION AND ARE HIS COPYRIGHT