Low Street in the 1930s
DOWN Low Street in the 1930s all the men are wearing caps, except one in a stylish hat.
On the left, next to Queen Street, Montague Burton’s are offering four-guinea raincoats for 35 shillings.
Opposite in the right, Stewarts’ Limited are also in the tailoring business
Lower down is a chemist’s, Taylor’s Drug Company Limited.
Even at this comparatively late date, horse-drawn vehicles were commonplace in Keighley.
Always a busy thoroughfare, Low Street was to be restricted to one-way traffic in 1948 – at 2pm on October 5, to be precise.
Pedestrianisation followed in 1981.
All three photographs have been supplied by Kevin Seaton, of Shann Lane in Keighley.
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