Hipperholme, Cross Roads c.1965
Photo ref:
H211004
Photo ref:
H211004
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Hipperholme is at the busy intersection of roads from Brighouse, Halifax, Denholme and Leeds. The Co-op store (1889), left, is now a motorcycle showroom. The Whitehall Inn is still here, but the fish and chip shop, right, now has a more pleasant aroma as a florist.
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Memories of Hipperholme, Cross Roads c1965
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"The little wooden hut next to the pub ,might have been Peter Manning's paper shop, but the "other wooden hut adjoining it was a chip shop when I was a kid and Mr. Ainley had it then. He also had a tiny little place where you could take your chips and eat them and sit at a table, out of the cold and the rain!
In later years, it became a florist's shop, but I had left Hipperholme by then and gone ...see more
The little 'hut' on the corner to me was always known as 'Mannings'. I think Mr Manning lived at the top of the stray. I had a paper round there for a while, early mornings going as far as Crosslee factory. I then used to go home and walk to school. I used to walk down Sutherland Road, up the snicket and down Knowle Top. Sometimes I would go down the main road to Hipperholme and ...see more
This brought back so many memories I used to walk from my home in LIGHTCLIFFE every saturday morning to spend my pocket money in the paper shop (The wooden hut next to the pub) I would buy an Enid Blyton book for sixpence, this photo must have been taken about the same time as it's just as I remember it Good times
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