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Title: New Road, Hebden Bridge - DEF00150
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Title
New Road, Hebden Bridge - DEF00150
Description
Date unknown, but probably c1970.
Holt's Greengrocers served Hebden Bridge and the Upper Calder Valley for generations. William Holt started the business in the late 1800s with a horse and cart. The first shop was just up from the Bank on the opposite side of Bridge Gate.
Around the turn of the last century William Holt moved to Bridge Gate. Following a road-widening scheme in 1931, in which the two end properties were demolished, Holt's moved two doors down to number six, and Arthur Holt (William's son) soon took over. He was very civic minded and bought the Memorial Gardens (The Park) and gave it to the town. The inside of the shop remained very much as it was 100 years ago. Flag floors, cobbled back yard.
The shop was one of the earliest to install a phone in the town. Hebden Bridge 43. After the war staff numbers went up to 12, and the fish and poultry side really took off. At Christmas well over 200 turkeys were killed, plucked and dressed, (no frozen foods then). Up to 30 hares came down from Scotland each week hanging in an open crate. Over a ton of fresh fish arrived each Tuesday, including one 8ft halibut, (imagine that today), and eight 14 stone boxes of haddock.
On a good day the queue would stretch along New Road and up Crown Street. Arthur Holt's motto was 'Quality is the true test of cheapness' which can still be seen over the shop.
Sadly the shop closed in 2019.
Holt's Greengrocers served Hebden Bridge and the Upper Calder Valley for generations. William Holt started the business in the late 1800s with a horse and cart. The first shop was just up from the Bank on the opposite side of Bridge Gate.
Around the turn of the last century William Holt moved to Bridge Gate. Following a road-widening scheme in 1931, in which the two end properties were demolished, Holt's moved two doors down to number six, and Arthur Holt (William's son) soon took over. He was very civic minded and bought the Memorial Gardens (The Park) and gave it to the town. The inside of the shop remained very much as it was 100 years ago. Flag floors, cobbled back yard.
The shop was one of the earliest to install a phone in the town. Hebden Bridge 43. After the war staff numbers went up to 12, and the fish and poultry side really took off. At Christmas well over 200 turkeys were killed, plucked and dressed, (no frozen foods then). Up to 30 hares came down from Scotland each week hanging in an open crate. Over a ton of fresh fish arrived each Tuesday, including one 8ft halibut, (imagine that today), and eight 14 stone boxes of haddock.
On a good day the queue would stretch along New Road and up Crown Street. Arthur Holt's motto was 'Quality is the true test of cheapness' which can still be seen over the shop.
Sadly the shop closed in 2019.
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Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
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PHDA - David Fletcher Collection
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Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
Identifier
DEF00150.tif
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Citation
“New Road, Hebden Bridge - DEF00150,” Pennine Horizons Digital Archive, accessed April 26, 2024, https://penninehorizons.org/items/show/22969.
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