A little bit of Park Street - familiar traders but they have all gone

A little bit of Park Street - familiar traders but they have all gone

Here is just a small section of Park Street. All these business premises have changed not only the tenants/owners but what they sell as well.  First on the right is Walter Robinson's electrical shop. This property was built on the site of some very old 19th century properties that were demolished. Robinson's moved to this site after their own shop in Bradford Road near to the junction with Hangram Street was demolished to make way for the new bypass which was built during the late 1960s and early 1970s. 

After Robinson's is a right turn into West Park Street, this was previously called Back Bethel Street and linked into Market Street as it does today. Across the road was Stanley Crabtree's paint and decorating materials shop. After the decorators was George Mitchell's estate agents which late became part of the Eddison's estate agency with its main branch in Huddersfield. On the right hand corner of Park Street was for many years Coombs the shoe repairer shop. But some readers may remember it better as - when you need to remember a senior moment turns up... this shop name is to follow.

Across the road in Bethel Street is the old Salvation Army Citadel. When it was closed and sold off it had a few different businesses occupying it. Today it is the Brighouse Dry Cleaning business who moved there after they left their Park Row premises. 

It may only be a couple hundred yards but over the last 40 years these shop premises have had many different tenants/owners and a diverse choice of goods and services on offer.   

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