THIS wet-looking view along Hanover Street, prior to the development of the Airedale Centre car park on the left, features the distinctive single-storey frontage of Walter Burgess Ltd on the right.
Originally selling bicycles, the company had been registered in 1923 and appointed Ford dealers later that same year, purchasing its Hanover Street premises in 1953. For its official opening of new showrooms in 1969, the firm sent out 2,500 invitations. The event comprised a mini motor show, with a fashion show for lady drivers and reaction and eyesight tests for motorists.
The name Hanover Street, together with its neighbouring Brunswick Street, suggests an earlier 19th-century development in this part of town, to say nothing of a means of commemorating the royal family.
A subsequent phase of expansion would see streets reflecting aspects of the local land-owning Dukes of Devonshire in names like Cavendish, Hartington, Chatsworth, Holker and Edensor, and even Drewry Road, called after the dukes’ Keighley agent.
The photograph has been supplied by Kevin Seaton, of Bradford Road, Riddlesden.
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