COMPARED with the North Street views, the left-hand side of turn-of-the-century High Street seen here remains broadly identifiable.

Notice Jefferson's fine shop on the corner of Temple Street, in contrast to the homelier older premises in North Street.

This shop has the date 1856 above its door, so it was built as novelist Mrs Gaskell wrote her impressions of Keighley while researching her life of Charlotte Bronte published in 1857.

She saw Keighley "in process in transformation from a populous, old-fashioned village, into a still more populous and flourishing town", and was struck by the "solid grandeur" of its new rows of grey stone houses.