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. 

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.