Marianna
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In Holmfirth on the south-west side of Victoria Street, there's a store-front that's always brightly lighted as daylight fades, but it doesn't appear at all in the Holmfirth section of Virtual Huddersfield. I believe that it might be number 11. Virtual Huddersfield shows only the duck race, which starts at the bridge, and Thomas Cook for that side/end of the street, skipping over the building in question. As of 2011 it was Harrow's restaurant and wine bar; way back when Spring Fever was filmed and Blamire and Clegg stood next to the building watching Compo at the 'gents' wear' shop (now apparently the MultiCraft Cabin) across the street, the building in question was Gledhill & Brook, a long-time retailer of groceries and provisions.
Gledhill & Brook had been in business since at least World War I. See http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=66130, post #17, end of first paragraph. Most of the internet records retrieved by a search for 'Gledhill & Brook' are about the Gledhill-Brook time clocks or the Brook dying plant, but they're topics for another day's Holmfirth local history research.
Marianna
Gledhill & Brook had been in business since at least World War I. See http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=66130, post #17, end of first paragraph. Most of the internet records retrieved by a search for 'Gledhill & Brook' are about the Gledhill-Brook time clocks or the Brook dying plant, but they're topics for another day's Holmfirth local history research.
Marianna
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