Then & Now - BRIGHOUSE (Calderdale, west Yorkshire)

[@bubbles2868]

Beautiful. Loved watching this.

[@crispinaske8293]

Brought back great memories, my father`s medical surgery used to be on Bradford road, before moving to Police street early in the 70`s. How the place has changed.

[@fonc7294]

Great photo comparison good job lovely town i was tapping my foot to the music thank you.

[@colinbarber9324]

Nice video, Bridge End is in Rastrick, not Brighouse. Between the 1870s and 1974 the Borough of Brighouse contained several Townships that were previously independent After 1974 the Borough was dissolved, so they returned to their original boundary. Hence Brighouse is not part of Halifax and Rastrick is not part of Brighouse. The river is the boundary between Brighouse and Rastrick. It all became a mess when Calderdale became a metropolitan council, so no change there ! Well done with the now and then pictures, I fear you might have to do an amended one now with the town centre alterations

[@stanholroyd1219]

Great film though - brings back memories from the (19)50s and 60s!

[@jonathanparkin7721]

The town planners have got a lot to bloody answer for!

[@allabouteve3290]

true, but not as bad as what they have done with Elland (which i am in the middle of working on next) :-0

[@jonathanparkin7721]

@@allabouteve3290 Don't get me started on Elland! They were destroying it way back in the early 70s... when I had the misfortune to work at Gannex!

[@allabouteve3290]

@@jonathanparkin7721 LOL, my 90 year old mum still has a gannex raincoat

[@markofx3223]

@@allabouteve3290 this lovely tune nice to listen to watching my lovely ginger Toms wonding about in garden 💕🐈😺

[@alysebastien773]

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[@amandairedale706]

Thanks for this. Brighouse the little market town.

[@brianpickersgill2421]

Not that little, rated number 318 in population size listings of cities, towns and villages, from thousands in the UK.

[@jrb1802uk]

Brighouse was beautiful once. Now full of Takeaways and Charity Shops. The Brighouse of today is unrecognisable from the lovely Black & White pictures in this video. :(

[@stanholroyd1219]

Puzzled by the Anchor Bridge at 3min 45sec being called Briggate Bridge. But named correctly at 11-40. BTW playing at double speed is still watchable.

[@allabouteve3290]

I think some call it briggate (from the 'road to the bridge' dating from an older one 1770s) - although Anchor bridge would be the name of this one it confused me a bit - I should of put 'anchor' 😉 www.geograph.org.uk/photo/786741

[@brianpickersgill2421]

Great little film, only comment is, the Thornhills Lane photo isn't in the right place, the first one is a view just passed the viaduct, Thornhills Beck Lane, the second one appears to be Thornhills Lane !

[@allabouteve3290]

You could be right when checking it out - the road looked more 'winding' on the older image and I was comparing it to the house below in the background - the 'up to date' view is thornhill lane just above - same view anyway 😉

[@Fcgoatcontentcreator9]

I watched the Lee mount vidio I was amazed because I go to Lee mount primary school

[@caleblindley7142]

Why do they have demolish everything. Would have been better sprucing up and refurbishing these buildings, rather then removing them all together.