Things have changed a lot over the last few years on this corner with Scotty Bank and Bramston Street. Gone has the old Salford Mill which is the dominating building in the photograph. This for many years was the home of Walter Robinson Electricals. Some readers may remember he has a shop on Park Street and before that his shop was at the corner of Hangram Street with Bradford Road.. 

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

This aerial view of the town centre dates back to 1973. The new bypass is being cut through the town centre which meant that many old properties had to be demolished and at the time this photograoh was taken many more would follow. For a number of years the town centre looked like a lunar landscape but it would all come good in the end. 

Andrew Barrington is a composer of brass band, brass ensemble, wind band, choral, and orchestral music and has been commissioned to write music for many ensembles around the world.

Andrew serves as the Divisional Music Director for the Arkansas and Oklahoma Division of The Salvation Army and, in this capacity, holds the position of Bandmaster of the Oklahoma City Citadel Band of The Salvation Army as well as the Arkansas Oklahoma Divisional Band.

Andrew is also the Music Director of the Frontier Brass Band, Oklahoma’s premier brass band, and regularly serves as a guest conductor of bands all over the world, often playing his own music.

Andrew’s music can be heard on numerous recordings of The Southern Territorial Band of The Salvation Army.

This week we are featuring Andrew's march Atlanta Temple 125 to open our show.

July 1970 - Thornton Square and Briggate - note Barnett's and Earnshaw shops are closed and boarded up in preparation when the demolition men would pull then down. The tall building is Bank House - what an impressive frontage, sadly that too was demolished. 

Here is a image of one if not the biggest fires ever seen in Brighouse and was described at the time as the great fire at Alexander Mills 26 October 1903.

This photograph is courtesy of Betty Longbottom through Geograph 2009.

Have you ever wondered how old your house is and what was on the site before it was built. Let us use this street as an example. Oakroyd Close is a comparatively new cul-de-sac of modern family houses on Bradford Road, Brighouse but what was on this site before these houses were built.