HERE is a well-manured North Street from the opposite direction, taken at the same time – the section being demolished is visible on the left.

Chapel Lane (now Russell Street) appears on the right behind the bystander and lamp-post.

Sadly the substantial houses and front gardens on the right were doomed, though for some years after the widening of North Street several of their trees remained on the new pavement.

Specifications of 1852 for one such fashionable residence reveal the use of local stone from Hainworth Shaw, Bracken Bank and Ladyspring quarries, flags from Wicken Crag and Penistone, Haworth, and mortar utilising "well burnt Lothersdale lime".

Sanitary arrangements were impressive: a water closet with deal "elbows" and mahogany seat, a two-role privy and a urinal of stone flags out in the yard.