This photograph of Market Street will take you back 25 may be 30 years. Some readers will be able to remember all these shops. From the right firstly there was Eurocar, some of you might even remember when it was Willart’s, who actually started in Briggate roughly where the entrance is to what was Wilko's. Next is a doubled fronted cafe with the name Shelagh's Cookhouse, but who was Shelagh? Was it a real name or just a trading name?
Aerial view of Brighouse bypass under construction in the early 1970s. It is difficult to imagine just how bad the town centre would be without the bypass.
His old shoe and boot repair shop at the corner of Halifax Road and Upper Green Lane is the modern looking Shizzy's Barbers shop now.